Exactly.
I had to have a good long laugh at the spelling (and the concomitant breast-beating surrounding the word) of 'anglicization', however, which was almost (but not quite) a self-defining oxymoron. If ever there was a word which needed spelling according to standard the English orthography, that was it.
Many non-native English speakers, amongst whom I count myself, are troubled by assertions such as the one below: it is as unfortunate a position as a C++ programmer suggesting that a Java programmer should stick to only looking at and writing Java code (or vice versa). We are either creating an encyclopaedia or we are creating an organ of linguistic propaganda. Let us hope we attain the latter.
Steve Callaway
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthere" anthere5@yahoo.com To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] This whole Lir and Americanization thing
--- Zoe zoecomnena@yahoo.com wrote:
The English wikipedia is designed for people for whom English is the native language, by and large.
I hope not.
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