Quoting Dave Zachariah <davez@kth.se>:
> By "historical accident" I meant precisely that it could have been any
> of the other languages dominant among the European imperial powers.
>
>
Or if the policies of the Chinese empire had not changed in the
early 15th century, Chinese.
Paul Cockshott
www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc
reality.gn.apc.org
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