[Foundation-l] New projects opened

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Sun Aug 23 17:12:38 UTC 2009


2009/8/23 Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
> Anyhow as I said before, language shift is very much related to
> attitudes and perceived language prestige. When doing business abroad,
> English is often the language of communication between Chinese
> companies and local employees and businesses. The day the Chinese
> begin to insist on doing business with only Chinese speakers is the
> day the world decides to learn Chinese. It is essentially a (bad)
> attitude of "We are better than you and so we do not need to learn
> your language, you should learn ours" that has resulted, I think, in
> the dominance of English.

"But Europe is filled with foreigners!"

> Mark




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