anagami wrote:Corporations trademarks are your "common collection of symbols", n00b.
Among other things. So are all the other languages, numbering systems, streets signs, hand gestures, etc., etc. And?
anagami wrote:Not all the world knows english fluently.
Who says it has to? Two hundred years ago, most of the Western world used French for diplomacy. A century from now, who knows what language the nations will find the most useful for international and business purposes? It might be English, it might be Mandarin, it might be one we wouldn't even guess.
But currently, a lot of people do know English. They've made an investment in learning it -- not because it's necessarily better than any other; languages are just sets of commonly-agreed-to symbols that enable the exchange of ideas, values, sentiments, concepts, and so on -- but because right now, it's simply the one that's the most common, mainly because of the business (and, yes, military) acumen of the British and the Americans in the past century or so. Don't get your nose out of joint; no one here is trumpeting that "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me" or something.
anagami wrote:I know Spanish, English and Italian fluently...
Noted. Which one are you finding the handiest to get your point across to all of us here?