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To: GST who wrote (121017)	12/6/2003 11:01:54 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi GST; Re: "In the past four years, for example, the Shanghai area alone received 500,000 new Taiwanese immigrants out of the 22 million of the total Taiwanese population." Some mighty strange things are going on in China. Here's a radical prediction: By 100 years from now, the situation which currently obtains, where Chinese from different sections of the country have great difficulty communicating verbally, will die away, and a single dialect will take over the country. My model for this is the US, where population movements and the influence of radio and TV have caused a marked decrease in regional accents over the past few decades. -- Carl