On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
On 10/23/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
My favorite part of the video, btw, is that French is the first language to come up when he identifies the Wikipedias of the developing world.
Since much of Africa speaks it natively, it seems like a completely appropriate choice, why wouldn't it be French? Saying that developing countries don't speak French is like saying only people from Spain speaks Spanish.
Yeah, though that's not the direction the "developing world" bit goes. And the next language to appear is German, which is not nearly as widely spoken in the developing world.
It is pretty obvious that the background was just cued as a montage of languages that we have Wikis in, and that it doesn't quite sync with the dialogue at that point. Totally a small issue. Also funny.
-Phil