On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:29:36AM +0100, tarquin wrote:
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?
Then by the same argument, why not use Spanish?
Because if you have to pick one, it makes sense to pick the one that
people are most likely to know. There's no bigotry involved, it's
simple numbers. Or would I be wrong in thinking that the proportion
of Spanish-speaking people who also speak English is much higher
than the proportion of English-speaking people who also speak
Spanish?
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