On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 17:49, Lucien-Henry Horvath <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > For me english is not THE culture of the world ... and a lot of countries > are thinking that.
So do I. It does not prevent me from using English when I believe it is the most appropriate communication tool. It's not a matter of "which is the most spoken language" or "which would be the one world language" for culture or anything else (nonsense). Far from that, for a native English speaker (even a native American English speaker) must certainly have a hard time not to correct people all the time here. :-) It's a matter of having a common "working language" for everyone. Here (mageia-discuss), we use English as a lingua franca/vehicular language. Because: - it's the most likely available international language that we, the founding team, manage to read/write/speak; - it's the most likely common language for everyone we expect to involve in this project at this time; - we're not in this to promote full interaction in each other native language (that would be a nice challenge great, but it's not this place's goal). In other places, you/we may/will use locally more appropriate idioms (blogs, other local ml, websites, forums). Mageia-discuss is a list: - where people can resonate discussions from other places/idioms; - from which people can translate/purport discussions to other places/idioms. We use "English" here. Note that doesn't prevent from using local pieces of idioms when in context and explained. Cheers! Santé ! Romain
