English Mania

[Tom Zurinskas]

We better get to them before the British do, or they'll all be r-droppers. :-)  But it's good to know English has a future.  Right now 70% of the native English speakers are in the USA.  But that would still be true if English is a second language to the Chinese.

In the future everyone should have a common language of communication.  Looks like it will be English.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:51:11 -0400
> From: hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: English Mania
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Herb Stahlke
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> Since they will then represent the majority of the world's educated
> English speakers, will their pronunciation then become standard?
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> Herb
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> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> English mania.
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>> All Chinese 3rd graders must learn English by law. China will become the largest English speaking nation.
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>> http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>> see truespel.com
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