[lbo-talk] Protection of Chinese language urged

[Chris Doss]

As I wrote about Japan it probably is not a factor of "world economic 
importance". Chinese has already a sphere of economic and cultural 
influence, something that Japan never had and your "Indo-European" 
centered opinion fails to see that the "world basic english" you 
mention is a 200 words sub dialect that has not much to do with what is 
needed to actually transfer complex information.

JC Helary
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I was thinking something similar with respect to Russian... Knowledge of Russian in a country like Uzbekistan is a hell of a lot more useful and "international" than knowledge of English. The "international language" of the CIS is Russian, and if you go into an business office building in Kiev or Tashkent, you are probably going to hear Russian spoken, not Ukrainian, Uzbek... or English.

		
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