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From: Chip Wood <wood>
Subject: Re: english on the internet
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:07:32 GMT
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jkorpela@snakemail.hut.fi (Jukka Korpela) wrote:
>The question about the universal language for Internet seems to have
>provoked an interesting discussion, both about relevant issues
>and about irrelevant issues (eg character codes).
>
> Linguistically,
>English is extremely unsuitable for international communication,...

Is any other natural language better?  If so, which one and why?
From a linguistic viewpoint please, lets leave geo-politics out of it.
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