"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?

> 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.

> > 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?

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom