"=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Eddy_Petri=BAor?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 4/4/06, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "=3D?ISO-8859-2?Q?Eddy_Petri=3DBAor?=3D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [..] 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. > > Even so, where is the evidence for that "fact"? Please don't > > present language politics as assertions of fact. > > So you need evidence that English is used in many cases when two > speakers of different languages meet andd have no other common ground > language? [...]
No, that would be irrelevant, being a somewhat different and much more limited situation. To make your suggested statement of "fact", one should have evidence that English is mostly used in international contexts. > I'll leave you judge if you used double standards or not :o) I did not. HTH. -- MJR/slef Laux nur mia opinio: vidu http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Bv sekvu http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
