When will Mandarin become the world's most international lan

why would Roger want to do that?

This is it, huh? And what does that do to your thesis?

Please don't taunt our new friend. He is obviously coming to terms with his sexual desire for men, as evidenced by his constant remarks about butt-killing, coupled with his gay language.

Anyone should have old him small penises are occurring with the gay Mandarins. Now, he is our base.

OIC. That's why he's learning gay English?

Even Inspector Clouseau would have nailed him.


(Oh. Another important gay reference. Not that there's anything wrong with him being gay....)

I suppose we shouldnt upset him ...he might eat us!

What is happening here, is that he is missing the point entirely, regarding the intentions of his Country.

The Chinese leaders (I have already stated this on another recent thread of his) are going hell for leather at getting their population to learn English.

If the world thinks that China is flooding the markets now....you wait and see what they will be doing in ten years, when their young businessmen and women are fluent in English.

We are already witnessing a gradual opening of their borders, and every day, China's population is being exposed to western culture, to levels that would have been unthinkable just ten years ago.

This obviously has inherent risk for the Chinese government, as millions of their young are now able to access the world, and its ideals of freedom, through the internet.

My teacher friend, just back from teaching English in China, had MASSIVE problems with sending emails to us, and posting on forums etc.

Sometimes, it would take four days for one of her emails to arrive, and when she viewed them on her return to the UK, half of what she wrote had been censored, or changed into several totally illogical sentences.

She had two "spies" in amongst her pupils, who completed a report on her everyday teachings, and marking her with "points" for everything they learned during a working day. One of these "spies" wasnt very good, as he/she made his/herself known to my friend early on, and told her to watch her back...constantly. She was warned about keywords NOT to be used in outgoing emails, as there are apparently thousands of Government internet monitors, checking virtually every word that is sent from China.

To show just how worried the Chinese Government is about this new found freedom of expression, the main keyword that is looked for, is FREEDOM. Any communication that contains this word, will be held somewhere in the ether, and read very carefully, before a decision is made whether to censor and send, or delete it altogether.

My prediction is that China's young, in thirty or so years from now, will be very similar to the young people of the western world. MacDonalds, Coke, KFC, designer gear and a desire to own a big house and a car.

Shame, really.

Yes, but he is Taiwanese, and native taiwanese, which I appreciate. I can also make a jump to being someone who feels bullied by some need to learn english.

And I agree with ehBeth, that language is mutable.

I am interested in this discussion, except that pshuang's views - may be, or may be not useful - seem to gather clearly wrong data post by post, which makes his argument seem stupid.

He should be more careful, many of his darts are flails in the air, dead wrong, with lots of independent sites to back that up -

but his general argument is interesting. Too bad he is so sloppy about it.

Osso, I think that, since the advent of the home computer, English is now fixed as the common language. I can understand that people who speak another language may feel a lot of resentment, having to learn English, but the modern world is geared that way.
Personally, I would have preferred the common language to be something else, as I (about the laziest student there is) would have been forced to learn a second tongue.
As things stand at present, there are millions and millions of people around the world who are basically bilingual, and have a distinct advantage over me.

I must resume those night classes one day............

Taiwanese eh? Having read his posts, and seen the frequent seemingly disparaging remarks towards gays an jews etc., I would have placed him as originating from somewhere else altogether....and from another era.
That's just my opinion, of course.

别粗鲁。

Yeppers.


I hope we do not get taken over by folk who consider gay a term of abuse and want to butt kill everyone, though.

Whether you believe it or not, I was stating a historical fact, not a personal opinion.

He said he's taiwanese. Who knows. He or she certainly harbors many biases.

說真的，我看不懂他們在說什麼

What did he say about Jesus?

something about him speaking Mandarin

Are you a Nazi or a Skin-Head? I sometimes confuse the two.

您真正地是贞女吗?

真的是什麼?
你到底在講哪國話?