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The next lingua franca won't be Mandarin. Most other asians refuse to learn it for "reasons," and it's hideously hard for others not exposed to tonal languages
by blargthorwars 2y ago
The next lingua franca won't be Mandarin. Most other asians refuse to learn it for "reasons," and it's hideously hard for others not exposed to tonal languages to learn.
- margalabargala 2y agoBoth those factors may change if China becomes sufficiently economically dominant on a global scale. Certainly they remain on an economic upwards trajectory, for now. They may be staring down the barrel of a demographic crisis and a real estate collapse. Will those happen, at sufficient magnitude and proper timing to prevent their global economic dominance? Hard to say. We'll have to wait and see.
- inverted_flag 2y agoMandarin is already on its way to becoming the lingua franca of electronics manufacturing. Many devices don’t have datasheets in any other language. I expect that to happen in other fields that China is taking over like biotech, especially with the US committing science-funding suicide. People learn a lingua franca out of necessity, not want.
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