Re: Bilingualism has ruined Canada but there is still hope.

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:42:46 +0100

Lee Sau Dan writes:

> Why not?

Because if people are fluent in two languages, one of them becomes
redundant.

> It could be the case that the country has one common
> national language, and then each region has its local language.

Then everyone is not bilingual at the national level.

> Modern China is an example, with
> Standard Mandarin being the common national language.

If everyone in China spoke standard Mandarin and standard Cantonese, one
of the two would rapidly disappear in favor of the other (probably the
one with more speakers outside China). 

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