6 Jan 2020, 16:35 by dieterdre...@gmail.com:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 6. Jan 2020, at 07:29, Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>>> Baltic Sea to be the "Baltic Sea" or for South America to be "South
>>> America" - this is an example of English imperialism.
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>> This "imperialism" idea of yours is just your idea. It is not something that
>> is widely felt.
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> regarding imperialism, I think it’s hard to reject the reasoning that English
> is in widespread use because of imperialism.
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Yes, but using it for a pragmatic reasons
for an international communication is
usually not imperialism.
I can try to communicate with group of people
from different countries in Polish,
Latin, Sindarin or Esperanto.
But except rare cases using English is likely
to result in more efficient communication.
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