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Rants and Stuff / Re: urge to kill rising... (a proof read rant)
« on: March 29, 2005, 10:56:51 AM »
As it happens, I know that about modern hebrew; the point stands, however, that it is effectively still the same language as ancient hebrew, with a much expanded vocabulary. About Yiddish; that's true... for the European Jews. American Jews spoke English, for the most part.

Oh, and I happen to agree with the idea that English could well become a fairly universal trade language; it has been done before; Using the Roman example, while they were in power, Latin was the trade language for their entire empire.

SE, my apologies for getting the Buddhism comments blatantly wrong :P

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Rants and Stuff / Re: urge to kill rising... (a proof read rant)
« on: March 28, 2005, 07:07:45 AM »
Heh, I actually wouldn't complain about that; Mandarin's quite a nice language on the ears, and fast, even if I can't understand a word of it xD

Also, if you go for the conventional 1-1.5 billion count for China, then Christianity and Islam are, I believe, the world's largest religions. While Buddhism is mostly confined to China and its emmigrants, Islam and Christianity are the primary religions of several dozen countries each, and many of those are quite populous.

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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: March 28, 2005, 06:25:41 AM »
Hello all, I'm Godzemo, known in real life (yes, that mythical place really DOES exist!) as Avi.

Blame everything on Xaio, he linked me here.

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Rants and Stuff / Re: urge to kill rising... (a proof read rant)
« on: March 28, 2005, 06:22:20 AM »
That, and Judaism came a good two millenia before Christianity. And hey, we still speak the same language we started with, Hebrew. (Alright, fine, we started with Aramaic, but Hebrew's been around for just under four millenia anyway xD)

Ehlers, get your head out from under a bush; with estimates going as high as 6 billion people living in China alone, the sum total of the world's English speakers may well be far capped by Chinese speakers already ^_^

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