Should China and Japan Move to Romanized Script?

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English is a second language, and it would be a trivial translation problem to let some people write in one spelling form, others in the other. If we pigeonize english, though, does that lead to a multiplicity of englishes, and it creates a new class in equality? You see this in india. Many people will speak a high, b, b, c kind of english, and then there are mixes of english. In hindi,. Or in singapore, you o english, which is highly efficient, but it's not something youare supposed to in a lot of work places. Is that the futurewell, our language, wh i think, i think this is

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Recorded November 14th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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