On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Don't most Internet users know enough English
to be able to search for
"pictures of a horse" in English?
(According to Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage),
yes... "Most Internet users speak the English language as a native or
secondary language.")
If I read the data in the article correctly, most means 35%.
Since "most" means more than 50%, I don't think you read it correctly. The
35% figure seems to be only native English speakers.
If we consider
that current English native speakers mostly already have internet and those
without internet are likelier than not to be non-English speakers I would
be
careful to advocate the unilateral use of English.
As would I, though I don't think you mean what you said.