I know a horse, but yesterday it took for me five minutes to remember sparrows were the bird's name I would have liked to mention. .
It helps to make this discussion helpful to some extent that native English speakers remind it is sometimes not so easy as you the native expect foreign learners. It's no sarcasm at all. Really. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gerard Meijssen > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> When you think that Commons is bad in supporting other languages, try to >> find pictures of a horse on the internet in other languages like Estonian, >> Nepalese ... It is not the same at all as when you are looking for images >> in >> English. > > > Don't most Internet users know enough English to be able to search for > "pictures of a horse" in English? > > (According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage), > yes... "Most Internet users speak the English language as a native or > secondary language.") > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
