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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (64061)	5/22/2005 3:25:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Lizzie, I think English is winning hands down. internetworldstats.com English wins: 1 - In cyberspace total numbers. 2 - In $ value per user x number of users 3 - In total world population usage [if Mandarin and Cantonese are considered separate languages, and only just comes second to Chinese if Mandarin and Cantonese are combined]. 4 - In spread around the world [Chinese is highly concentrated in China]. 5 - In ease of usage English beats Chinese, despite crazy English exceptions and inconsistencies. Kanji/Chinese hieroglyphs are not a lot of fun. Japan did a kludge with hiragana and katakana to help ease the way, and China did a simplification during the cultural revolution or about then. Apparently, using pinyin, people can learn to enter characters quickly in Chinese. It would be nice to see the equivalent of metrication of English to make it rational, consistent etc. American has changed colour to color and made other changes, but of a trivial nature. Maybe there will be a huge cultural shift in a decade or so, led by revolutionary young people who refuse to just go along with old-geezer style English, or American. That will be TeoTwawki. That would be a LOT of fun. Hindi is a big language, but not strong in cyberspace so isn't mentioned in that list. I suppose Russian is quite big too, but just another also-ran in the grand scheme of things. World languages by distribution ethnologue.com Mqurice

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