From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Dec 11 13:38:39 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 11 Dec 2001 21:38:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 5182 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 21:38:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Dec 2001 21:38:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 21:38:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBBLcb007429 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:38:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:38:37 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: 2007: Chinese, Web's most used lang Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple Chinese will become the Web's most used language by 2007, outranking English, as more and more people get online. That, at least, is what WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) said yesterday in Geneva, reported by the FT. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23247.html -- What impact does this have on Lojban? The Lojban Community is historically shy about discussing pompous grand designs, but English will be knocked out of the role of Unquestioned Universal Language. Yet Chinese is too cumbersome for western typewriters, and considered horribly complex by most of the world. -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.