They value a single language for business, he says, even if it is not their own.
True, native speakers generally regard the seven to 13 mostly mutually unintelligible variants as dialects of a single language.
Of those that work, some may owe their success to a powerful, binding ideology (as in the United States), backed by laws, history and, sometimes, a single language.
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.
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Trying to decipher body language from a single gesture is like trying to find narrative meaning in a single word.
You know how people who come from completely different cultures and backgrounds, people who might not even speak a single word of the same language, they might still be drawn together when their hearts are lifted by the notes of a song, or a vision on a canvas, or the graceful arc of a dance.
As the UK's Europe Minister, David Lidington, said: "If you look at the summit conclusions, you'll find very ambitious language there about strengthening the single market, cutting the amount of red tape and regulation on small businesses, on expanding external trade".
That much make sense: Given how much of a data center is virtualized, and the management of that becoming something of an overarching operating system, servers may start to look something like what assembly language does now in a single computer: something critical, but not something people look at a lot, and not a place to stake your fortune.
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He said the rise in maths and single sciences was "encouraging", but the fall in language study was "worrying".
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It is why we cannot distinguish words or sentences when we first hear a foreign language and the reason it sounds instead like a single stream of noise.
But the reality is that many parts of the brain work together to produce speech and no single gene, region of the brain or theory can explain successful language-learning.
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By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.
An epochal advance in literature was Dante's The Divine Comedy, wherein he single-handedly took a dialect of Latin and virtually created the modern Italian language.
On the other hand, I had an early facility with language, but it was my complete hopelessness with arithmetic that was the single dominant experience of my young life.
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Aside from the basics - utilities, schools, clean streets, efficient public transport - at which Tokyo traditionally excels, the Japanese megapolis provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf, home helpers for the elderly, and subsidies for single-parent households.
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