You come back as a ghost?And 100 years later, I won't be there, so how can I call it my language?

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Or region. Or neighbour. Yet we are not talking about a language here, but about variants of a language. Do you feel that anyone who wants to do well in business has to learn either the AE/BE standard or similar?The main benefit for learning a language is to trade, learn, and interact with the institutions of that demonstrably successful country.
The language has variants, and Standard English is one of those variants.jotham wrote:Rather those who can benefit trading with or interacting with those institutions will want to learn that language and not a variant that NES might not know.
How about India?In a prosperous country, there will be thousands (millions?) of such institutions seeking mutually beneficial exchanges more so than in a poor country.
jotham wrote:India has a rising middle class. Most of its independence, it has followed socialism and protectionism until about 1991, which is why there are still so many poor there (22% below poverty line) and why the language isn't as prominent in the world as it should be, (for what the population is).
So what's happening here/there?
"Poor Americans continue to multiply under Bush as Republicans continue to ignore trend"
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/16063.php
Number of poor children hits 12.9 million
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/censusand ... overty.htm
The rise is now, but which variant do you think they are using/choosing for business nationally and internationally?I'm under the impression that although more liberalized, it still isn't following free-market principles (correct me if I'm wrong). But still, it has phenomenal growth. After such spurts, we see the rise in status perhaps twenty years later, if not immediately.
Correction, your farmers feed a great part of the US, but you still have a lot of hungry people.One farmer feeds a hundred? Or even better? Our farmers feed not only the US but also the world: "breadbasket of the world."
No, please don't. I was only asking you to comment on those findings. Anyway, onward. Which variant of English do you think most Indians are chossing/will choose when doing intranational and international business?Fourth, you're quoting from many sources that are political. I can list sources that are neutral, or from another policital view.