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Default Re: Is it possible that Chinese would take the palce of English?

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Originally Posted by CHOMAT View Post
I totally share this viewpoint. There are no economical , political or historical-to be reasons to believe Mandarin will spread all over the blue orange .


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PS Incidentally, Alain, is l'orange a metaphor - a bit like l'hexagone? If so, it doesn't translate too well - possibly just because having the two colours 'blue' and ''orange' juxtaposed is confusing (for us anyway! - ils sont fous ces bretons).
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