English only, please

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:48:39PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> As of Nov 30th, 2005, the following URL:
> 
> http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
> 
> Shows, in fact, that Chinese is "the /de facto/ /lingua Terra/", sorry to 
> say ... English is the /de facto/ /lingua Internet/ though ...
> 
> 
> 
> Mandarin and Spanish are the top two languages ... Mandarin by a *very* 
> large margin, Spanish by a close one ...

	As I understand it, in Mongolia, English is rapidly 
	becoming an Official language.  [[ Now there's a place 
	to invest.]]

	(Personally, I'm **still** trying to learn French....)

	gary


> 
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 
> >On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 19:45:45 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> >>Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >>>On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>Where exactly does it say that this is an "english only" list?
> >>>
> >>>I suppose you have a point.  It's implicit; it should be spelt out.
> >>>At http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html you have a
> >>>choice of "Mailing Lists" or "Non-English Mailing Lists".  -questions
> >>>is under the former link; the Polish mailing lists are under the
> >>>latter.  At
> >>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/
> >>>there's a reference to an inability to speak English.  But we should
> >>>really do something about writing a charter that makes it clear.
> >>>Anybody feel like having a go?
> >>
> >>A "virtual friend" of mine (Kiwi, but don't really know his name)
> >>has written this for a programming forum I frequent:
> >>
> >>" To those people for whom English is a foreign language, I can
> >>only offer this: English is - for better or worse - the /de facto/
> >>/lingua Terra/.
> >
> >Hmm.  I don't want to justify the choice of language, just state it.
> >It's an interesting document, but I don't think it's what we want.
> >
> >Greg
> >--
> >See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
> >
> 
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