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oh man. my Spam wont have any further influences. fricking sucks

hey I'm new here. so how are you?
what do you think will the most important language in the next twenty years?

don't know which will be the most important language, but i hope, this section will be more important, so that the posts count :)

why would they?

@libra

i can tell you which will play no significant role at all...

so which do you think that it is?

English is still gonna be the the most important language. 20 Years is not a long time.
The question is more interesting, if you ask about what shall be in 100 or even 1000 Years.

I think in the Year 3000 GERMAN will be the World Language :Y:

hm I think you are right but what happens when the chinese catch up (<- i hope it's is right word) in sciences. What when in the next twenty years software and hardware comes from china and i mean that it will develop and make there? I think many countries have the possibility to change the current situation.

do you think that the humanity need a language that everybody understand? do we need a world language? And know anyone whether it is possible to program a computer in Chinese or meaningful? (becauce Chinese have many different character and each of them has a different meaning and need his own number)

as long as gaelic (irish) is not the world language, i won't complain :D

unless there is a dramatic change, something causing global turmoil, there wont be much of a difference to what we have now.

English is quite ok. It will still be important which is not a bad thing. English is ok though there are minder problems with some words who are spelled and written confusing but one gets used to it.

Maybe Spanish would be also nice thing. Probably also Brasilien. Itilien of course is also guite ok.

Even Turkish is tolerable. Frensch probabbly not. But asian languages are really a nogo. That stuff feels like learning maschincode. No thanks. Though I had a suggestion for an experiment what would happen well all Lationos would spieak Chinese? Would they somehow make the language more appealing? Shure but not really.

that's how people in ireland with the weather :D

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88061276&postcount=15

Well, all English threads on this website seem to die very fast... I guess a good topic is missing. Since I also have no idea for a topic, I just ask something random:

Why are you actually interested in the English language or the culture of GB or USA?

AlbinoLight schrieb:Why are you actually interested in the English language or the culture of GB or USA?

i have no other choice, i would say. i'm living in ireland, i have to speak english ;)

@azerate
Are you from Ireland, or have you chosen to live there?

AlbinoLight schrieb:Are you from Ireland or have you chosen to live there?

i'm originally from germany, but i moved to ireland in 2004

@azerate
So, my question was: why have you chosen this culture/country? Was it because of the language and/or culture, or just due to other matters?

azerate schrieb:i have no other choice, i would say. i'm living in ireland, i have to speak english ;)

By the way, under usual circumstances I would say you had the choice when Ireland is not your homeland...

@AlbinoLight: when i moved here, it was my free choice alright ;)

AlbinoLight schrieb:Why are you actually interested in the English language or the culture of GB or USA?

i am to some extend obviously americanized whatever it means. english is mighty tool for getting information. i am in turkey now but probably will go different countries. in english i can collect the information much better than in any other language. that´s why i changed my use of english from passiv to active which means comunicating with people over internet.

from that apart i like american music, blogs, writings and alot of stuff.

Billy73 schrieb:in english i can collect the information much better than in any other language.

That is a quiet good point. There are so many English websites on the internet with often more information to specific topics than on other pages. One of the reasons that I am glad to be able to understand so much English.

azerate schrieb:when i moved here, it was my free choice alright ;)

May I ask you why you made this decision? That would be the point of the question I asked.