financial crisis affects languages

Gayman   Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:09 pm GMT
Which languages will benefit and which will be disadvantaged because of the financial crisis?

I think English and Russian will collapse.
abobora   Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:48 am GMT
Sanskrit, Latin and ancient Greek will benefit from the finacial crisis. As a result of this English,Russian Chinese, Japanese and German will become extinct
Meredith   Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:06 pm GMT
Gayman wrote: "Which languages will benefit and which will be disadvantaged because of the financial crisis? "

Old Irish has been chosen as the new world lingua franca because of it's complex verbal system.
DaDebble   Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:39 pm GMT
US will continue to hispanize, and also the north eastern states will become a third world country (as with every country with a hispanic majority). Face it, the USA are third world already.
bovina bound   Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:45 pm GMT
I wonder how Icelandic will fare in the current economic slowdown?

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2008/10/iceland_goes_ba.html
a more original name   Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:32 pm GMT
For the English language there are a lot of risks. This situation can help some regional languages of manufacturing economies as German, Italian and Japanese.
amour   Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:39 pm GMT
"For the English language there are a lot of risks. This situation can help some regional languages of manufacturing economies as German, Italian and Japanese."

It's a nonsense. First of all the financial and economic crisis is widespread all over the world, secondly, for instance, the Japanese economy has gone through a crisis for more than 15 years
a more original name   Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:48 pm GMT
"It's a nonsense. First of all the financial and economic crisis is widespread all over the world, secondly, for instance, the Japanese economy has gone through a crisis for more than 15 years."

The world is changing. In the next years, countries with false economies will follow the destiny of Iceland. Power will be in producer countries.
Your name:   Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:55 pm GMT
<<false economies>>

Bye bye Russia and China and Dubai! Yeeha!
Blank   Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:02 am GMT
Now that Americans have finally come to their senses and stopped voting in ruinous/borderline retarded presidents then things can only improve.
a more original name   Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:17 pm GMT
"Bye bye Russia and China and Dubai! Yeeha!"

Ireland and UK (English speakers coutries) are more in danger than China. USA umbrella is now closed. Also Spain and Greece are risking a lot.
Guest   Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:01 pm GMT
"Ireland and UK (English speakers coutries) are more in danger than China. USA umbrella is now closed. Also Spain and Greece are risking a lot."

Not properly:

Nations in bankrupt:
1. Iceland
2. Hungary

The nexts:
3. Denmark
4. Spain
5. Ireland
a less original name   Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:12 pm GMT
"Ireland and UK (English speakers coutries) are more in danger than China. USA umbrella is now closed. "

That's fine. Look at the respect that snivelling coward Tony Blair received when he was addressed by G.W Bush as "Yo Blair!", despite dragging his country into an illegal war on Bush's behalf.
Guest pride   Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:37 pm GMT
Face it, perhaps excluding France, the rest of European countries are shameful puppet states of the USA (and the jews).
Gay pride   Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:48 pm GMT
Also France is an American Puppet. Remember that America saved Europe from Nazism and Fascism.