Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!fuug!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) Newsgroups: comp.society.development Subject: Re: The languages of the net. (was Re: Mailing list for networks in Latin America) Message-ID: <1991May30.193217.3017@uwasa.fi> Date: 30 May 91 19:32:17 GMT References: <1991May28.172900.11325@dsd.es.com> <1991May29.095807.17756@uwasa.fi> Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland Lines: 19 In article kdr@doc.ic.ac.uk (K D Rigotti) writes: : >the better. Believe me the English would love the rest of the world to >speak our language (perhaps someday even the Americans ;-) but merging is >much more sensible than wholesale migration. : Sidetracking from the original subject slightly, I feel that English has become so widespread (also a bit thanks to computer nets) that the English have no special license to it any more. Those days are long gone, at least since the Second World War. To me the English, Americans etc just happen to speak English as their native language, and that's all there is to it. No awe, no divine aura attached. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun