From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 16:33:16 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 AFD4716A41F; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:33:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EC443D46; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:33:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0HGX932047851; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:33:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k0HGX8K8047850; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:33:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:33:07 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20060117163307.GB47717@thought.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060115224154.N28752@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19+ years of service to the Unix community X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:50:16 +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: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:33:16 -0000 On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:48:39PM -0400, 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 ... 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 ... As I understand it, in Mongolia, English is rapidly becoming an Official language. [[ Now there's a place to invest.]] (Personally, I'm **still** trying to learn French....) gary > > 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" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix