On 3/28/06, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Oh, to hell with that as a comment. Sheer ignorance of the contributions of many German, Dutch, Scandinavian, French and Spanish native speakers. And particularly when Wikipedia was a babe in arms.
Ok, I've obviously offended you. My remark was intended as a vague sympathetic sigh agreeing that there are vast numbers of monolingual anglosaxons in the US, that do indeed have a great deal of influence, being as numerous as they are.
I think "driven" was a pretty poor choice of words - I didn't mean to imply that they were somehow the leadership of the Wikipedia effort, but rather, the meat and potatoes or something. Not that I really have any idea.
My apologies again.
Steve (only claim to fame is that I'm bilingual and living in France)