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simple list of just ten words, words like “。a”。, “。and”。, “。have”。 and “。the”。, bined to form one quarter of all those ever used in modern munication. Perhaps the real test is: will the global adoption of English as a master language insure the eradication of any misunderstandings that happen today? The answer is not as simple. Russell Hoven once asked: “。How many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”。 But one can only hope that our only aim and our only chance of insuring that we municate effectively with each other is to make sure that we do speak one universal language. In a thousand years time Western clocks will hopefully have ticked onto the year 2999 and we can be assured that scientists, academics and futurists will convene, much like weamp。rsquo。ve done today to look back at the third millenium and offer their predictions for the successes of the forth.