From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 02:48:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3535416A41F; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:48:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7942343D45; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:48:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CAFA62C7E1; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:48:36 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92647-09; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:48:36 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F2D62C7E0; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:48:35 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D0F733E60E; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:48:39 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB45C39C02; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:48:39 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:48:39 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey In-Reply-To: <20060116022901.GN73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20060115224154.N28752@ganymede.hub.org> References: <1965019375.20060111213647@interia.pl> <43C94AAA.9070009@orchid.homeunix.org> <20060115222845.GV73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200601151649.31803.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> <20060115230234.GX73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> <43CAFAC9.8080401@daleco.biz> <20060116022901.GN73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:30:45 +0000 Cc: Karol Kwiatkowski , vocativus , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Don Hinton Subject: Re: English only, please X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:48:37 -0000 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 ... 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 > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664