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From: bpendlet@bambam.dsd.es.com (Bob Pendleton)
Newsgroups: comp.society.development
Subject: The languages of the net. (was Re: Mailing list for networks in Latin America)
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Date: 28 May 91 17:29:00 GMT
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In article <4448@aipna.ed.ac.uk>, reiter@aifh.ed.ac.uk writes:
> I just received this announcement of a new BITNET mailing list for networks
> in Latin American and the Caribbean.  I haven't bothered to translate it into
> English - I assume if you can't read Spanish, you probably won't want to
> subscribe!


I've had some form of network access for most of the last 10 years. In
all that time I've only seen a handful of articles in a language other
than English. Considering the number of countries on the net it seems
odd to me that I only see English in the news groups.

Is English used for posting local news in non-English speaking
countries? Or is Engish only used when posting news with World
distribution?  Does the dominance of English on the net hurt the nets
acceptance in the world?

Or am I suffering from a sampling error caused by my location?

-- 
              Bob Pendleton, speaking only for myself.
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