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To: marcos who wrote (35619)	7/1/2003 10:59:59 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<'english' [didn't they actually start out as 'arabic'?] letters > I don't know where they came from, but they are handy. Just as these days, all the bright young sparks are cerfing in cyberspace and writing cunning code for CDMA, in the olde days, I suppose the bright sparks were inventing letters, words, grammar and all that stuff so that we ignorant users could just come along and send the letters zipping through CDMA cyberspace, without even thinking about how it all came about. Ordering tomatoes, maize and chiles on-line! Thanks to all who went before. I wonder if there was a Y2K equivalent boom and bust during the language development times as everyone invested in new words, past participles and various tenses, plurals and stuff. Mqurice

To: marcos who wrote (35619)	7/2/2003 8:53:26 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>we'll stop politely using these 'english' << Dont worry, it's happening... When I landed the last time in States (Newark), the baggage information was broadcast in *Spanish first*, then came English - dont know about aztec tho. Re Mandarin &c, if it's not the language, what is it then, that makes (Han?) Chinese Chinese? Common history? The long March ;\? Honest question. We Slovenes are a tad less than 2M (thats millions not billions) and have dialects that could drive you bananas. But it's a common language, easily identifiable. Talking slow does it in most cases.