Wednesday, September 1, 2010



THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGE

Ok gang, you Fauxians out there converse regularly in English, although many of you (we have no doubt) have other language skills. But worldwide what are the most popular languages? In reverse order 10th most popular is German, 9th Japanese, 8th Russian, 7th Bengali, 6th Portuguese (I guess a lot of South America there). Ok, ready for the top five? (drum roll) the fifth most spoken language is Arabic, 4th English, uh oh, so that means there are three more, you probably guessed Spanish that’s 3rd. Did you guess Hindi is 2? We didn’t. And of course because of the population despite the one child policy the number one is Mandarin Chinese. We wonder when that is going to be offered regularly in school, in high school and pre-high school courses. In any event we think of English as the universal language of the world for literature and commerce because it’s ours, but it’s obviously something to think about speaking of speaking of languages.

Posted by Unknown at Wednesday, September 01, 2010

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