At 13:04 -0500 23/1/08, daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 1/23/2008 11:08:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
gmaxwell(a)gmail.com writes:
What is the minimum number of languages must you write in to
effectively communicate with 99.9999% of all the world's literate
people?
And numerate? You have six significant figures here.
Well, the first thing to do would be to count the number of monolinguals,
not necessarily the number of languages spoken. For instance, in the
US, Canada,
Australia, there are a lot of tiny indigenous languages, but most of the
speakers communicate effectively in other languages, for better or for worse.
Danny
Written Chinese, English and Spanish does it for me...
Gordo
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