Umm that brings me down to my real question then. Why does the language used in air traffic and other things have to be English? This is why the French insist on it being French. Who gives English the automatic right to be the chosen international language. I prefer English over French but at the end of the day it is not about me and those others who prefer English either. No natural language should be the common international language. As far as I am concerned it gives those who (in this case English) have spoken it from birth or at a very young age an "unfair advantage". For example Chris (That is your name McLaren Fan correct?), you have an advantage over me when usung English in the sense that you can express yourself better and clearer. I have spoken English for only 10 years and at times I would struggle to express certain things that you wouldn't and that I wouldn't if I were speaing Italian. If you made Italian the International tongue for example then the problem would be the same except reversed. This is why no natural language should be allowed to prevail as an international language and only Esperanto should be chosen for this purpose. Esperanto is neutral and also easy to learn for all and is the most successful of the artifical languages designed for international purpose. If everyone used Esperanto for international communication then no one can ever gain an advantage over no one and everything will always be equal.
In my own experience of learning languages, English is a superior language in the sense that there are more tenses, synonyms etc.; you have more ways of expressing the same thing, which is useful, although mastering them takes more effort than other languages. I don't think we should use a language just on the basis of not giving an advantage to people from the British Isles. The main criterion has to be about the quality of the language. Most people would need to be ablt to speak English often seem to know it as well, so it's not that drastic a difference. Where people whose first language is English come into problems is not, say, in international business, but when they go to a particular country, say France, and are unable to communicate in day-to-day life
I took a level maths aqa exams and got an A. Is MF saying that my maths ability is useless and would be better if i did it with OCR. Fact is most students don't get a say with what exam board they take exams with it is decided by the school
Your maths A level won't be be useless. Far from it. It's just that OCR and Northern Ireland's education system are of a slightly higher standard. In Northern Ireland, many high schools use AQA because it's slightly easier to get a better grade, whilst the grammar schools will always use CCEA. Problems exist at British universities as well. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland you do one or two subjects in your three-year degree. If you go to a Scottish university, you do a four-year degree made up of three subjects for the first two years and one or two subjects thereafter. Again, that gives people who went to a decent university in Scotland an advantage because their degree will have more in it. I feel sorry for employers and people working at universities' admissions offices having to decide which qualification is worth more, factoring in the type of qualification, the quality of the subject, where it's from, what exam board were the exams taken with. It's a complete fiasco. The system needs totally streamlined.
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McLaren: WCC 1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998,
1999, 2007McLaren: WDC 1974, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2008
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