Re: Plausibility Check
- From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:42:31 +0200
DJensen wrote:
[snip]
It follows then, at least in my mind, that if an International[snip]
Auxiliary Alphabet were introduced (by the right people) and promoted
(to the right people), languages would begin to converge as they
started sharing more and more vocabulary and phrases.
I am afraid that I certainly misunderstood you. But doesn't
IPA exist and is already in wide use in modern dictionaries?
Further, could it be that you are thinking of the achievement
of a "universal language"? One of the many impediments would
be the resistance from people speaking currently their
different languages, because of certain reasonable or
unreasonable "reasons". I personally guess that English has
the best chance of becomming defacto the universal language
in a century from now. Whether I personally like that
tendency is another matter. Sometime ago I deliberately
attempted to find a book in German on a certain scientific
subject in a German library but was surprised to see that
the overwhelming majority of the books there satisfying my
needs are in English.
M. K. Shen
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