Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: linguistic hegemony, was Recent history of vi Date: 12 Dec 2025 02:27:31 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <10he0oj$237cl$4@dont-email.me> <10hfb1t$1nip$1@gal.iecc.com> <10hfb79$2fut8$3@dont-email.me> <10hft10$1bbn$1@gal.iecc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jcZkH3eMCc5jaE0xUDkIUAUqrgO+Lu4STb8ppeCSqcugoR5Dyk Cancel-Lock: sha1:9zS1aUIhARVUp6LI+44BZ/nLaSU= sha256:qb/icGsgzIMgGtoA7DeuD50V5OSf670Y99b6Wd7bWJ4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78857 alt.folklore.computers:232496 On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:01:04 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote: > In 1955, China's GDP per capita was $58. Last year it was over $13,000. > That's certainly not all due to the common language but it helped > establish a single economy where people could move to where the jobs > are. > > I realize China has plenty of other issues but its economic development > in the past half century is astonishing, particularly in view of how big > it is. It doesn't hurt that 91% of the population is Han.