Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:27:58 -0700 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: English only, please Message-ID: <632E8B5F-E617-4051-8067-9C3E0F488178@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <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> <20060115224154.N28752@ganymede.hub.org>
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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 >> -- >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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