[Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

[Anthony]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> When you think that Commons is bad in supporting other languages, try to
> find pictures of a horse on the internet in other languages like Estonian,
> Nepalese ... It is not the same at all as when you are looking for images
> in
> English.


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.")