> The Expo is located in Berne (german speaking territory). Therefore
> german is the most prefered language for people visiting the OpenExpo.
> So why publish content in english? For people from the uk/usa?
Hehe, even the people "from the uk/usa"... sie sprechen/schreiben/verstehen
auch Deutsch.Wir sind ein Globales Dorf geworden. (:-)
> The Swiss Confederation has it's own languages and culture. I am proud > of
> it and against the movement as side-effect of globalisation to
> accept the english language as pseudo-standard for (inter)national
> communication.
Nothing wrong with that at all -- however, English is so easy to learn that in
the last200 years it pushed out French and became lingua franca.
Perhaps it helps to think of Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek NG - although Jean-Luc
Picard comesfrom Navarre, he (and everybody else) speak English because the
entire planet hasbecome unified under one government, which holds not just
Earth - but multiple planets in aFederation of free planets.
It might look like a long shot now -- but if you look hard enough, you'll see
that "the writing ison the wall" and in a couple of centuries, barring nuclear
cataclysm, it will happen.
However, that is no reason to give up being proud of being Swiss -- as well you
should be!And it won't change the fact that you're one. Not now, not ever.
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