Plan to make English 2nd language vetoed

[Mekong]

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[LizardKing]

Geek War!

 

[color:purple]There are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.[/color]

 

[LizardKing]

Geek War!

 

[color:purple]An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.

 

The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer, etc...

 

The bartender says, "You're all idiots," and pours two beers.[/color]

 

555+

 

(tip for for non-geeks)

[Mekong]

Wouldn't that be -101 people?

 

Ternary is often reffered to as "Crisp Fuzzy Logic" but now we are getting into the realms of neural networks and artificial intelligence

[LizardKing]

LOL! Touche!

 

'Bout time for a wasted arvo on PP2, innit? I hear icy Jager at Cosmos calling our name...

[TheCorinthian]

A grasshopper walks in to a bar.

 

Bartender looks at him and says, "We have a drink named after you."

 

"You have a drink named 'Steve'?"

[Mekong]

A neutron walks into a bar and orders a drink.

 

After he's done, he says to the bartender, "So what do I owe ya'?"

 

And so the bartender responds, "Oh, you're free of charge."

[LizardKing]

OK, not the last one...

 

[Bangkoktraveler]

I went to the University of Arizona's book store a while back and was taken back they did not have one book on Assembly Language.

 

It seems today kids today are not taught hexedecimal, octal, tri-octal, etc.

 

What they are taught is how to write programs that use a lot of memory and resources.

[Steve]

Saves them trouble from having to make chinese the 2nd language in a couple decades.

 

Not sure if English will be important in 100 years or so anyway. Things can and do change. French was the language of diplomacy for a long time. Even with the British empire as big as it was it wasn't until the U.S.'s emergence that the language of diplomacy became English full stop.

 

In our hemisphere, spanish is more widely spoken. In America spanish is becoming a second language in certain regions. Spanish, French and German are the traditional three offerings of most HS's. I wouldn't be surprised if spanish becomes mandatory in American schools like English presently is in Korea and other countries.

 

English will only be as relevant as the U.S. is globally in terms of trade and politics. If America collapses financially and with it, its global dominance economically, it won't be a language worth learning. You learn the language of those that have the economic power. For a time many americans were studying Japanese. I was at one time because I was in finance and the Japanese were big players.

 

If the dollar is replaced as the major currency of trade (and it looks like its heading that way), I suspect english will follow it in relevance.

 

America's biggest trade partners are becoming China's (Korea, Japan, Brazil, and europe is heading there at a fast clip). Chinese is becoming more important. If the chinese start coming to Thailand en masse and we start seeing them replace europeans and norht americans, then the language of the beer bars will be chinese instead of english.