The end of the Latin-alphabet monopoly left me feeling… disappointed. I’ve nursed for some time the silly hope that the predominance of English on the Internet would pave the way to a kind of World Peace. The sort of world where people all knew, to some extent, English. The sort of world where people all were united, kind of, under the banner of the Internet. And now the floodgates to greater fragmentation have been opened.
This could be like opposing Luther’s translation of the Bible into German.

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November 11, 2009 at 5:45 am
Liwu Cai
Dear me… E, you sound quite imperialistic there! =D
I think the french would be quite opposed to that ‘rallying under one banner written in english’ idea. Perhaps even the chinese!
… Sorry, I’m just stirring.
By the way, I gleamed from the internet that you will be going to the states to study. If thats correct, congrats! Sounds like it’ll be an adventure.
November 11, 2009 at 10:03 pm
ethan
About the studying thing, I’ll let you know when I know =)