English only, please

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Tue Jan 17 08:28:11 PST 2006


On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:48 PM, 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

All depends on how you define it.  Almost anyone in the world, when  
traveling in the world and in a place where they don't speak the  
native language, will try English...  Kind of defeats your statement  
in many ways

Chad


> ... 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 ...
>
> 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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