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Hello Roy - 

CA>> Nothing particularly wonderful about English really 

RJT> Except that I'm *real* used to it... :-) 

Sort of. There are over 150,000 words in the English language
with Americans knowing the definitions of 15,000 (or less) but
only using 5,000 or so of those in normal conversation. 10% or
less is not a great deal to lose if we quit using English and
switched to another language. :-)

CA>> but German friends have admitted that typing the same
CA>> documentation for a computer program in German requires
CA>> almost twice the typing. They have some VERY long words
CA>> (mostly consonants) that look like joke words (to me) but
CA>> aren't. :-) 

RJT> They sure do have some long words. 

Yes they do. 

CA>> Personally I would've favored Spanish but the wise choice
CA>> would probably be Chinese. They have the longest history
CA>> and outnumber everyone else. Lots of people we could chat
CA>> with. :-) 

RJT> I'm not too fond of that idea. 

We could all learn French-Candadian and annoy the French. ;-) 

CA>> IBM is shipping millions of jobs offshore to India which
CA>> should be interesting. 90% of the people in India can't
CA>> read/write English and the country has over a dozen
CA>> languages. 

RJT> Lots more than that, actually, maybe hundreds. 

Ah ... "over a dozen" is equal-to-or-greater than one dozen
which could conceivably be "100s". 

RJT> But they can't all talk to each other and use english when
RJT> they want to. It's also the language that they use to
RJT> conduct their government and  technical education in. And
RJT> some of those tech graduates are reportedly *real* sharp,
RJT> on a worldwide basis. 

I know, I've heard this all my life. The USA designs
(engineers) most of the worlds new technology then manufactures
it in those countries with all these really really sharp people
in them. Hogwash. 

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