Comments on: Short Bus Gran Prix http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081126/short-bus-gran-prix.html Less Professional Every Day Sat, 29 May 2010 22:47:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081126/short-bus-gran-prix.html/comment-page-1#comment-406 Mark Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:18:15 +0000 http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/?p=350#comment-406 Interesting, but very few people want to learn a language in which no rap albums have been released. Interesting, but very few people want to learn a language in which no rap albums have been released.

]]> By: Brian Barker http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081126/short-bus-gran-prix.html/comment-page-1#comment-405 Brian Barker Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:59:05 +0000 http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/?p=350#comment-405 I live in London and if anyone says to me “everyone speaks English” my answer is “Listen and look around you”. If people in London do not speak English then the whole question of a global language is completely open. The promulgation of English as the world’s “lingua franca” is unethical and linguistically undemocratic. I say this as a native English speaker! Unethical because communication should be for all and not only for an educational or political elite. That is how English is used internationally at the moment. Undemocratic because minority languages are under attack worldwide due to the encroachment of majority ethnic languages. Even Mandarin Chinese is attempting to dominate as well. The long-term solution must be found and a non-national language, which places all ethnic languages on an equal footing is long overdue. An interesting video can be seen at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a former translator with the United Nations A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net I live in London and if anyone says to me “everyone speaks English” my answer is “Listen and look around you”. If people in London do not speak English then the whole question of a global language is completely open.

The promulgation of English as the world’s “lingua franca” is unethical and linguistically undemocratic. I say this as a native English speaker!

Unethical because communication should be for all and not only for an educational or political elite. That is how English is used internationally at the moment.

Undemocratic because minority languages are under attack worldwide due to the encroachment of majority ethnic languages. Even Mandarin Chinese is attempting to dominate as well. The long-term solution must be found and a non-national language, which places all ethnic languages on an equal footing is long overdue.

An interesting video can be seen at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a former translator with the United Nations

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

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