tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 31 00:57:05 1995
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Re: Word for `English'
- From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Word for `English'
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 08:55:36 GMT
- Priority: normal
David E G Sturm <[email protected]> wrote:-
> ... The computer probably has ensured that English will supplant most other
> languages in the way Latin texts once continued Latin's predominence in
> church and government...
(1) `ensured' should be `assumed'???
(2) English may be the dominant Earth language some way into the future when
the Federation will be established and the Star Trek events or equivalents
thereof will happen; but we live now, when Earth still has many official
languages. We will have to keep on saying e.g. `England Hol' etc.