Happy B-Day Onno

[Leagle]

Incorrect. "You old english?", reffering to the language? ha!

No.

[Exilibur]

Ye can be used as 'you' in plural, where as thou is singular you (ie only speaking to one person). Dunno about 'Ye' when it's in front of nouns...

Actually the words are grammatically altered kinda like german in old english... thou willst for example, with that extra st in the end... that's kinda kuul.

[sPlOrYgOn]

I believe ye means "your"
I had a list of all this old english stuff somewhere...

[Cpl. Shrike]

Ye is more to be The.
like "De" in dutch and "Der" in german.

Ye, De.

Probably pronounced as thE

[TruB]

can you just stop with the talk about Ye.. and old english..

we need to make a big decision here.. what language will be the universal language?

or maybe we should have europe start talking english since most alread can it.. except france.. but we make them have it in school.. and all other contries.. in 50 years english will be the first or second language in europe.. for all.. except granny and grandpa in france.. :p

then.. comes the big move.. everybody moves over to english.. and it will be the only spoken language..
by now.. a basic chineese is being teached in school. which is the only language talked in asia by now.. and they are teaching enlish.. in about 50 years.. a new decision is being made.. will the new languag be english or chineese??

[Cpl. Shrike]

Originally Posted by TruB

will the new languag be english or chineese??

Chineese it is already the most spoken language in the world.

[Leagle]

Originally Posted by Cpl. Shrike

Ye is more to be The.
like "De" in dutch and "Der" in german.

Ye, De.

Probably pronounced as thE

Correct.

And I don't think it will be chinese, mandarin or cantonese. The languages dominate a block, everybody else is too far from, and too established to ever accept any chinese as "the" language. If it isn't english, it will always be multipolar.

[TruB]

true.. but its the no the most spoken language around where i live.. i know 2 who can speak it.. not enough to make me learn it.. somehow i think english is more dynamic..

[sfx1999]

It's not that I don't want to learn Chinese (I actually do), but people would have to much trouble with it. It is tonal, one word can mean multiple things depending on the tone it is said in.

Then again, in English it depends on the rest of the sentence.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

I don't know if English will be the international language or not, but it definitely is for me one of, if not THE simplest of all (not that I speak it without mistake, though )