Re: Gibt's hier auch Inform-Autoren deutscher Adventures ?


Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:08:47 -0500

Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.int-fiction: 21-Mar-95 Re: Gibt's hier
auch Inform.. Fredrik Ekman@lysator.li (1200*)

> Why is it that some of you Americans can't see that your language is
> NOT the only one that is spoken on this planet? Not to mention that you
> cannot even speak it properly yourselves.

> The world is a multilingual society and the 'net is world-wide. Thus,
> the 'net has to be multilingual, too.

I dunno about this "has to be". Usenet groups in the main domains (rec,
sci, comp, etcetera) are just about all conducted in English. The
exceptions are AFAIK all language- or culture-specific newsgroups.
Perhaps in the future it will not be this way.

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."