Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:40015283.71C97EF7@yahoo.co.jp...
> > Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> > > Whichever is most expedient.
> >
> > No, English. It is I who tell them they should communicate with Chinese or
> > Koreans for example, in their own language, and the Japanese who claim
> that
> > English is the most useful.
>
> Or rather, yes, English. because it is most expedient. You said yourself
> below that English is dominant. So rather than have their engineers learn
> Chinese, and Malay, and Tagalog, and German, ad nauseum, they are going to
> get them to learn English, which is apparently hard enough on its own.
> Simple expediency.
>
> How can you compare this to prefectural government lackeys, living and
> working in Japan, and inviting contractors to come bid with *them* for
> *their* money?

Because prefectural lackeys even in communities considerably smaller than
Fukuyama also use English and other languages such as Korean, Portuguese,
Tagalog, and Chinese. And the Expo is a large project.

> > Again, I am not claiming or promoting English *should* be the dominant or
> most
> > prevalent international language. It just is. I don't care if all people
> have
> > to learn Esperanto or some other artificial language to communicate
> > internationally.
>
> Compare this repeatedly to what you wrote above , until you have understood.

It is not I who decide that English is the language of international
communication, the most expedient, or the language of choice for Japanese. It
just is.

> > > Yes, that's the impression I got. And I would still buy a Mercedes
> instead
> > > of aToyota if I could afford it and wasn't too damn cheap to pay for it.
> >
> > I've been in a top of the line Mercedes
>
> Good for you. What do you want, a cookie?

I prefer Soh ice cream. Chocolate. This caramel chocolate waffle banana roll
from Family Mart kicked ass, too.

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