On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 09:37 -0700, Tim Alberts wrote: > Here's a thought, how about quit making up new languages and start > combining others. Well, English already does that. I don't know if others adopt words from other languages, like it does. I wasn't aware of there actually being new languages developed, other than colloquial jargon. > It's a global society and it'd sure be nice if we all spoke the same > language. Being American I vote for English (because I don't want to > learn something new), but honestly, I don't care if it's > Spanish, French, Chinese, Russion, Arabic, pig latin, or something > completely new (that is efficient and makes sense). Sure it'd be nice, but I can't see it happening. It's all politics. It's going to be years, maybe centuries, if ever, before we all speak human. ;-) -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.