Comments on: While you were sleeping 2/9/2010 http://e1evation.com/2010/02/09/while-you-were-sleeping-292010/ content management and marketing for thought leadership Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:01:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian_Barkerhttp://e1evation.com/2010/02/09/while-you-were-sleeping-292010/#comment-129 Brian_Barker Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:57:16 +0000 http://e1evation.com/?p=3563#comment-129 Google's "Babel Fish" translator will in never solve the language problem. Not only does it discriminate against anyone who cannot afford a mobile phone, but against minority language groups as well.<br><br>There are 6,800 languages worldwide, not fifty-two !<br><br>Moreover, if I met a native in Borneo, and he said to me in Hakka "I've lost my mobile phone" how would I understand him :) And how many starving Africans can afford a mobile phone !<br><br>As English loses its economic power, the answer is not for us to move to Mandarin Chinese, but to Esperanto which puts all speakers on an equal footing.<br><br>Have a look at <a href="http://www.lernu.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.lernu.net</a> or <a href="http://www.esperanto.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.esperanto.net</a> Google's “Babel Fish” translator will in never solve the language problem. Not only does it discriminate against anyone who cannot afford a mobile phone, but against minority language groups as well.

There are 6,800 languages worldwide, not fifty-two !

Moreover, if I met a native in Borneo, and he said to me in Hakka “I've lost my mobile phone” how would I understand him :) And how many starving Africans can afford a mobile phone !

As English loses its economic power, the answer is not for us to move to Mandarin Chinese, but to Esperanto which puts all speakers on an equal footing.

Have a look at http://www.lernu.net or http://www.esperanto.net

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