From b.gohla@gmx.de Sat May 19 15:40:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 19 May 2001 22:40:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 75510 invoked from network); 19 May 2001 22:40:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 May 2001 22:40:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (194.221.183.20) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 May 2001 22:40:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 11294 invoked by uid 0); 19 May 2001 22:40:14 -0000 Received: from b7a4f.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.122.79) by mail.gmx.net (mp030-rz3) with SMTP; 19 May 2001 22:40:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Reply-To: b.gohla@gmx.de Organization: private site To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: decline of the english language Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 23:56:44 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051923564401.01082@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 coi rodo=20 in the lojban faq it reads: ... This dominance, and a heritage of colonialism and imperialism that built resentment towards American and European impositions on native culture, has caused recent movements in other countries away from English. The rising influence of Japan and other countries on world economics, science, and technology makes further declines in English's universality likely. ... when was this written? my experience is the exact opposite. in fact being a cand. phys. all the advanced literature i use is in english, either because it will not be available in german for a long time or it is cheaper= =20 anyway. i dare to say that over 90% of all natural science publications in= =20 germany are written in english, some universities even accept diploma these= s=20 in english. they are also working heavily on being able to offer a certain number of lectures in english, and trying to introduce bachelor a= nd=20 master degrees which are hardly known here in contrast to the usual diploma= . also english is pervading popular culure beyond rediculousness, stupid advertivements introduce englisch words even for the most trivial things th= at can be very well descibed in german, doing that they try to draw upon the=20 so called "american way of life". the abhominable "handy" (mobile phone) is= =20 probably one of the less disturbing examples. co'o - --=20 - -------------------- HARDFAIL("Not enough magic."); 2.4.0-test2 /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/nbd.c pub 1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltb=C3= =BCrger)=20 Key fingerprint =3D 9FF4 FEDA CCDF DA0E 14D5 8129 6C14 3C39 834F 4976 sub 1024g/29571FE2 2001-01-07 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7BuwhbBQ8OYNPSXYRAhN1AKCHwiuTal7wH9Q7sWA9aJs8+VEyugCff2gq zp5Ux+o/PZGMCnXPC/+rA0I=3D =3D0K4G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----