Re: What's MEXT in English?

From: Kevin Wayne Williams (kww.nihongo_at_verizon.nut)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:52:41 -0700

Jed Rothwell wrote:

> Perhaps countries like India
> prove I am wrong, but my prediction is that within a hundred years nearly
> everyone on earth will speak English as a second language, and within a
> thousand years all other languages will be extinct. That is a terrible
> thing, but it seems unavoidable.

Actually, India probably supports that hypothesis. When I was VP at
Paxonet, one of the things that surprised me was the number of employees
that spoke English to each other. The reason was simple: there are about
15 major languages in India, and many Indians have only English as a
common language.

KWW

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