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Thread #5973   Message #34565
Posted By: AndreasW
10-Aug-98 - 02:47 AM
Thread Name: pedantry
Subject: RE: pedantry
I hope that in ten years time the computers do understand English AND OTHER LANGUAGES AS WELL (sorry for shouting), but I have to make the point that there are a few countries where English is not the spoken language!
They might even hold the majority of earth population:
China: ~1 billion of ~5 billion earth population, India another ~1 billion, the rest of Asia, all of South America, all Europe except UK and Ireland, biggest part of Africa

Andreas, defender of the non-english-speaking nations