Bridging The Gap?
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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Through the years, man's progress has been marked by uncertainties, by crises in all fields! medicine, transportation, industry, and the like. These crises have sent man in search of solutions to these problems. Different peoples from different countries speaking and writing in different ways have found alternative which somehow serve as break troughs or advances in man's progress. The major crisis is, however the matter of communications how to give and gain information.
How are we to bridge the gap? A global language is one answer, and English is that language.
Why English?
English has a strong cultural base---political, military, economic---because it is spoken by recognized world powers such as the United States of America and Great Britain.
English is taken up in places that were at one time very much under the sphere of British influence such as India, Australia, Canada. Or those under the American flag. in such areas, English become the official language, used as a medium of communication in government, the law courts, the media and the educational systems. In such societies, people needed to master the English language to be bilingual, and go as to be able to "get on", to succeed. Today, English has some kind of such status in over 70 countries, such as Ghana, Nigeria, India, Singapore, and the Philippines. Beside this kind of administrative status given English, it has also become the primary foreign language taught in schools. The total number of speakers of English, it is estimated, is close to 1,300 to 1,500 billion.
The political business and academic worlds demand a world language. The chief international forum for political communication --- the United Nations --- needs a global language. Without one, expensive and impractical multi-way translation facilities are needed. A conversation over the internet between academic physicists in Sweden, Italy, India and Japan is practicable only if a common language is available. Otherwise, there will be miscommunication. Similarly, the technology of air transport brings together international business contacts.
Today, in this world which has become a "global village", people have become more mobile, both physically and electronically. There has never been a time when so many nations were needing to talk to each other so much, or when so many people wished to travel to so many places.
Never has there been a more urgent need for a global language to bridge the gap.
The human future depends on our ability to combine the knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness.
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Love, beautiful angel rhoze... :3
Rosemarie, Rose for short, 
December 2010
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