From: tgpedersen
Message: 13902
Date: 2002-06-20
>An equally playful conjecture here says Denmark will have 1 mill.
> Now, your strategy would be to make things as simplistic as Barney
> the Dinosaur and have the linguistics, culture and population move
> together in unison all the time. Unfortunately, reality seldom
> works that way. There are differing reasons for spread for each
> of the different aspects we are discussing. Language was not
> coming from the Middle-East, population and culture was. We may
> note a similar situation with Mexico where culture is coming from
> the US, but Spanish is still alive and well. (In fact, there has
> even been playful conjecture in the US that Spanish will take over
> English in the near future.)
>
>
> - gLeN
>