<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:06 PM<br>.<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Edmund Aunger <<a href="mailto:eaunger@ualberta.ca">eaunger@ualberta.ca</a>><br>To: Language Policy List <<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:05:30 -0600<br>Subject: Re: [lg policy] Map of second most-spoken languages in the world<br><br><div dir="ltr">Displaying each country's second most-spoken language is an excellent idea. Unfortunately, in this instance, the results are marred by a flawed methodology and unreliable data.<div><br></div><div>Among the most flagrant problems is the confusion between spoken language, mother tongue and official language.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, although French is Canada's second most-spoken language, the map mistakenly lists Chinese. French is excluded, we are told, because it is an official language. Yet French is listed as Switzerland's second most-spoken language even though, here too, it is an official language.</div><div><br></div><div>Ed</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4">Edmund A. Aunger</font></div><div>Professeur émérite en sciences politiques</div><div>University of Alberta, Campus Saint-Jean</div><div>Edmonton (Alberta) T6C 4G9</div><div>téléphone: <a href="tel:780-465-8759" value="+17804658759" target="_blank">780-465-8759</a></div><div>télécopieur: <a href="tel:780-465-8760" value="+17804658760" target="_blank">780-465-8760</a></div><div>Web: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~eaunger/" target="_blank">www.ualberta.ca/~eaunger/</a></div><div> </div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-06-09 8:34 GMT-06:00 Harold Schiffman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hfsclpp@gmail.com" target="_blank">hfsclpp@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Here's an interesting site: a link to a map of the second most-spoken languages in the world.<br><br><br clear="all"><div><a href="http://graduate.olivet.edu/news-events/news/second-most-spoken-languages-around-world" target="_blank">http://graduate.olivet.edu/news-events/news/second-most-spoken-languages-around-world</a><br><br></div><div>HFS<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div>-- <br><div>**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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