Pete Wilcox wrote:
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> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Bill wrote:
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>> One thing I would like to see is the invention of a universal
>> language, taking the best words of each language to describe some
>> thing, so that even us pompous Americans would have to learn it. The
>> font would have to be ASCII and not something inefficient like the 2
>> keys for one Japanese character/word. If people could all communicate
>> in the same language I think we would all be better off.
>>
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> It's been tried before. It was called Esperanto. It didn't catch on.
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> Cheers,
> Pete.
>
That was going on about the time I was in high school, 60's. If it had
an esp(anol), (english) and maybe some other stuff, but it seemed to be
more of a Western Europe based language (to pacify the Hispanics?).
These days something would be good for one 'Global' community rather
than trying (hopelessly) to learn 10, 20,....100 different languages for
all the world trade going on. I took French, but in California it should
have been Spanish. Now add in the weird ones like Arabic/Muslim and then
Japanese and Chinese and you have 3 completely different sets of
characters. Japanese and Chinese look the same to me, but are totally
different languages.
Now that we have Global Internet the need is even bigger.
It probably will happen if we don't screw it up.
Bill Baka
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