[Foundation-l] New projects opened

Bod Notbod bodnotbod at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 05:20:42 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Mark Williamson<node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> I disagree. All languages that have had a chance of becoming world
> lingua francas - English, French, perhaps Spanish, are some recent
> examples - were not only the languages of economic or political
> powers, they were also the languages of vast colonial empires.

You're working on the assumption that China won't colonise anywhere. I
have the feeling they're going to burst and spray their populace
across the greater part of the continent at some point.




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