...we should all be speaking Manderin right now. Or it should be an international business standard. But it's not.
Obviously there is something more to the prevelance of English on the Net then just the number of people speaking it.
Perhaps simple things like...
1-English speakers invented the Internet.
2-It's too damn hard to type in Chinese.
3-The majority of net users are English speakers.
4-*Insert some common sense fact here*
It's kind of sad that somebody would present such an idea without addressing some of most basic, obvious facts.
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...we should all be speaking Manderin right now. Or it should be an international business standard. But it's not.
Obviously there is something more to the prevelance of English on the Net then just the number of people speaking it.
Perhaps simple things like...
1-English speakers invented the Internet.
2-It's too damn hard to type in Chinese.
3-The majority of net users are English speakers.
4-*Insert some common sense fact here*
It's kind of sad that somebody would present such an idea without addressing some of most basic, obvious facts.