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Will there ever be a Universal Language?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Forum' started by john boy, Mar 24, 2023.

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  1. Garcia

    Garcia DI Senior Member

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    Well you might be right, however I recall my spinning globe being mostly pink, which represented the world which the UK or rather British Empire ruled over. Anybody with a pineapple on their head was easy pickings.

    Guess in the not to distant future the globe will look like a yellow beach ball. Brits history, Yanks in decline, maybe good time to learn Chinese the universal language of no choice unfortunately. Otherwise how the proles going to order from that new takeaway menu?
     
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  2. Chriscraft

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    These are the most spoken languages in the world
    • English – 1,121 million speakers. ...
    • Mandarin Chinese – 1,107 million speakers. ...
    • Hindi – 698 million speakers. ...
    • Spanish – 512 million speakers. ...
    • French – 284 million speakers. ...
    • Arabic – 273 million speakers. ...
    • Bengali – 265 million inhabitants. ...
    • Russian – 258 million speakers.
     
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  3. Crystalhead

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    Time frames do very in regard to your post but in way of cause and effect. the 3 are about tied.
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  4. Garcia

    Garcia DI Senior Member

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    Minus Welsh as that definitely ain't English
    Minus the McJocks as they don't like us, rightly so looking at history but do we care, no.
    Minus the Irish as only when they drunk (often) do they make any sense.

    So IMO that puts the Chinese in front by one of their prawn curries, although not a patch on a propa Indian king prawn dansak +rice and that's not in my opinion...
     
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  5. Dave_Hounddriver

    Dave_Hounddriver DI Forum Luminary Highly Rated Poster

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    I guess it depends on your source
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  6. MikeP64

    MikeP64 DI Forum Adept Veteran Marines

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    I was being subtle. What I meant was 01101101 01100001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110101 01101110 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100101

    anyone who doesn't believe, Skynet will help them understand :yikes:
     
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  7. Dave_Hounddriver

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    Dave_Hounddriver, Mar 26, 2023
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  8. Dutchie

    Dutchie DI Senior Member Showcase Reviewer Veteran Army

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    Just to set the record straight, allow me to give some examples: Cape Horn (kaap Hoorn) was named by their Dutch discoverers after the Dutch city of Hoorn, similarly Tasmania and the Tasman Sea after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who went on to name New Zealand after his home province in the Netherlands, Zeeland, and obviously the Barents Sea was named after Willem Barentsz, another famous Dutch explorer.
    The oldest structure built in Australia by Europeans is a Dutch fortification, some 150 years older than anything the English built.
    Moreover, the original name of New York is New Amsterdam.
    Of course, history often gets (re)written by the winners of the last war (militarily or economic) :wink:.
     

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    john boy DI Forum Luminary Highly Rated Poster

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    Very informative Dutchie
    So are you willing to take the blame for Garcia's comments of the Explorer's and Enforcer's, he seems to be very angry about?
    View attachment upload_2023-3-26_8-43-32.png
     
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  10. Dutchie

    Dutchie DI Senior Member Showcase Reviewer Veteran Army

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    Well, there's plenty to get upset about in history when looking at things through today's eyes.
    My home country (or rather, the Dutch East Indies Company, but they were granted a charter by the Dutch government) is just as guilty of forcefully exploiting colonies for their own gain as the British are; same goes for the slave trade.

    The one thing that separates the Spaniards and Portuguese from the Dutch and the English is that Spain and Portugal sent plenty missionaries
    to support their colonization efforts, with the effect that all of south and central America is Catholic, and the former Spanish colony the Philippines the sole Christian country in Asia. The Dutch and English never bothered with religion in colonies.
     
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