On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
As of Nov 30th, 2005, the following URL:
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
Shows, in fact, that Chinese is "the /de facto/ /lingua Terra/",
sorry to say
All depends on how you define it. Almost anyone in the world, when
traveling in the world and in a place where they don't speak the
native language, will try English... Kind of defeats your statement
in many ways
Chad
... English is the /de facto/ /lingua Internet/ though ...
Mandarin and Spanish are the top two languages ... Mandarin by a
*very* large margin, Spanish by a close one ...
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 19:45:45 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote:
Where exactly does it say that this is an "english only" list?
I suppose you have a point. It's implicit; it should be spelt out.
At http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html you have a
choice of "Mailing Lists" or "Non-English Mailing Lists". -
questions
is under the former link; the Polish mailing lists are under the
latter. At
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-
questions/
there's a reference to an inability to speak English. But we
should
really do something about writing a charter that makes it clear.
Anybody feel like having a go?
A "virtual friend" of mine (Kiwi, but don't really know his name)
has written this for a programming forum I frequent:
" To those people for whom English is a foreign language, I can
only offer this: English is - for better or worse - the /de facto/
/lingua Terra/.
Hmm. I don't want to justify the choice of language, just state it.
It's an interesting document, but I don't think it's what we want.
Greg
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