On 4/3/06, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think that starting this debate is not the point. Most people in the > > Debian i18n community know Javier and myself and they perfectly know > > we do not push for English as the universal language: we just live > > with that fact, just like Debian does. > > What fact? By most definitions of "universal", English is not the > universal language. It is just debian's current working language. > Please don't exaggerate that.
I am sure Christian ment somethign along the lines of: Javier and myself and they perfectly know we do not push for English as the universal language: we just live with the fact that is mostly used in international context, just like Debian does. > > Free software development is about being pragmatic.... > > Indeed, and pragmatic does not say "follow the sheep". If it I think you're overreacting, knowing Christian he is the person I would least expect to push English in front of some other language. > Most people will find Esperanto far faster to learn than English > and there are plentiful resources online like www.lernu.net I looked over that link but I couldn't find Romanian -> Esperanto; also true for a few other hundered languages spoken on Earth, so, although Esperanto might be a neutral language is not yet that well know world wide to replace English as a frequenlty used language in conversations between speakers of different origins. Again, please do not overreact, we don't need politics nor bureaucracy. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
