* Posts by bearvarine

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Wikipedia cracks the five-million article barrier, in English

bearvarine

Re: Bah!

How did we ever live before you could look up in Wikipedia the synopsis of every episode of Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation? THAT is a frikkin SERVICE to mankind!

bearvarine

Re: But it isn't in English

English - The most ubiquitous international language that everyone loves to hate...

The French are still upset that English became the de-facto international language.

India has its own dialect of English.

The Philippines has its own dialect of English.

South Africa has its own dialect of English.

The Japanese language now incorporates English borrowed-words for 5% and 10% of all words in common usage.

We should be glad to be the third most-spoken language in the world, and arguably the most important one. Dialects are really not to terribly important in the grand scheme of things.

http://bloggingprince.blogspot.com/2011/03/english-speaking-countries-in-world-map.html

http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm