[Wikipedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia

[Khendon]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:15:30AM +0100, tarquin wrote:
> >1. Why can't we just talk to them (EL) in English? I'm pretty sure 
> >most of the people speak at least limited English (would be hard being 
> >on the Internet otherwise;) Just say "sorry, my Spanish isn't good 
> >enough for that". 
> 
> That is a very US-centric  attitute (or English-centric, your pick).
> There are whole swathes of the internet which don't speak English.
> And you've inadvertently demonstrated one of the reasons they split from 
> the main Wikipedia site.

Well, *one* of the two groups is going to have to speak the other's
language. Why not use English as the common language?


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