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Sat 5 Jun, 2004 07:14 pm
As globalization continues apace, the demand for an international medium of communication has today become even more crucial. Not a few problems arise when one particular language like English is adopted as a universal language since the people in English speaking countries would be automatically vaulted into a privileged position. Additionally, English is difficult to learn due to its irregularity of grammar and pronunciation. Mondlango, which represents a world language, is characterized as its regular grammar and simple pronunciation.
Thanks a lot, Phoenix. I've been watching this thread for almost 11 friggin' hours, waiting to see where it was going.
All of a sudden you barge in and start yelling at the guy.
Now you've scared the poor bastard off and we're never going to hear his question.
I hope you're happy with yourself.
Big guess here. I think kulturo is talking about a world language other than English, and, yes, English is very difficult to learn. At one time, Latin was considered the universal language. MD's had to master it for writing their scrips. That soon fell out of favor.
But, who's gonna create this new language?
I tried once:
Shish hort.
I have had interest in languages all of my life. In college I have studied both Japanese and Chinese. I also studied a little Spanish in high school. It certainly would be a wonderful thing if there were an international language that was easy to learn and use. English does seem to be the dominant international language now. I also agree that English, in its present form, is not an ideal international language. The spelling of English is an atrocity and the grammar is too difficult I believe. In Japanese schools English is taught to students starting at an early age, yet when I lived in Japan it appeared to me that even after years of study, many Japanese still had a great difficulty with English grammar.