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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: International Language.
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In article <3f0as0INNohb@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
>In article <1995Jan7.214953.26905@midway.uchicago.edu>, deb5@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

><Nu?  Contrast that one example to the number of countries that have
><willingly adopted English as a mandatory second language.
>
>Are we expected to believe that that had nothing to do with British and
>Yankee imperialism?

American and British imperialism certainly forced English upon lots of
countries, but they're all well along the post-colonial continuum and 
could dump English the way they have many other vestiges of colonialism.
The vast majority have kept it as the only viable choice interlanguage.

And if you could explain exactly how "imperialism" is responsible for
the incredible popularity of English in Scandanavia, China, and Thailand,
I'd be grateful. 

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