But the world will be a poorer place if Mr Fischer is proved right and the old Genesis myth of a single language for all finally comes true.

ECONOMIST: Language

But in addition to the intensity of the artist's involvement with his art, he sincerely believed that he had developed a universal structural and aesthetic language suitable for all the building needs of our time.

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Plaid Cymru said the figures were a "setback for the Welsh language and to us all".

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One is with Zend, which builds technologies for the PHP language (over a third of the all web sites operate on it).

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It is easy to see why Oracle, Netscape and Sun are together promoting the Java language, since the success of the network computer would create a bigger market for all three.

ECONOMIST: Movers and shakers

This congruence in language is hardly surprising, since the Blair and Clinton teams are a living advertisement for all those worthy programmes designed to promote cultural exchange between the young.

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Mr Obama said Israel had discussed important steps to "restrain" settlement activity, in what some observers noted to be a change in language from his previous calls for Israel to "halt" or "freeze" all building work.

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For all its valiant language about the first to the cloud, NYSE is actually a little late to the party.

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Their language is organized noise, like all of ours are, but for them each word is a funnel.

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Formerly a professor in Canada, the president had more luck persuading parliament to change a law that set a tough Latvian-language qualification for election candidates, ruling out those Russians who speak it poorly or not at all.

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The lost and confused are shown navigating their way through New York streets, the Golden Gate bridge, an airport and a ski hill to highlight Google's latest Maps and Now goodies, while a tourist all-too-happy with his Thai meal learns the word for delicious in that language using Google Translate.

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After all, they are the language of the subconscious, created by you for you as a means of working out issues in your waking life.

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