Re: a few short notes
2004-02-03 10:02:38
On Feb 3, 2004, at 8:02 AM, James Craig Burley wrote:
Seriously, dude, get over yourself. English is the "lingua franca" of
the Internet;
Well, it is on English-language mailing lists like this, that's for
sure. Funny about that.
I'm going to make a wild guess and say that most of the people making
these arguments don't speak an asian-pacific language, have never sent
an e-mail in it, don't know many (if any) people who are native
japanese or chinese speakers, haven't really researched what's going on
over there, and are, basically, shooting from the hip.
And are horribly wrong in their worldview. What I find interesting is
that at least some of them seem to be english second language europeans
who ought to know better, given that their native language support
issues are subsets of the larger problem. ohwell.
I'm just going to say I'm very disappointed in the tunnel vision I'm
seeing here and shut up, since I expect that's enough to get yelled at
anyway, but the arguments about english-centric are both wrong and
destructive to this process, if your goal is to actually get this thing
accepted as a standard in our global universe here on the internet.
(The fact that English is my native language is irrelevant.
No, it's not. Not at all. But the fact that this mailing list was built
english-only both speaks to our underlying attitudes and excludes from
this discussion those who are in the best position to explain why this
discussion is wrong, because they don't use english and they don't use
a roman language set.
and that sort of makes these kinds of decisions self-fulfilling
prophecies.
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