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> English is the language of the world and we should use computers to push everyone to learn This (and everything you wrote after) is incredibly bigoted. Engli
by rkangel 5y ago
> English is the language of the world and we should use computers to push everyone to learn
This (and everything you wrote after) is incredibly bigoted. English is only just the most spoken language in the world. 1.35bn people have English as a 1st or 2nd language whereas 1.12bn people have Mandarin Chinese[1]. And even if it is the most popular language (by a narrow margin) why should that mean that everyone else has to speak it?
Let's imagine a world where the Chinese government got everyone (Cantonese etc.) retrained to speak Mandarin over the next 10 years so that it overtook English. Would you then change your view to think that everything should be written in Mandarin? No, you just want everyone else to adopt your own self centred approach so that you don't have to take into account anyone else's preferences.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20there%20were%20around,at%20the%20time%20of%20survey https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-l....
- collegeburner 5y agoBecause it's an effective tool to maintain American cultural hegemony and I want to do that. It's an effective way to spread American values and further American interests and computers are a good way to do it. I reject using chinese as a global language because it furthers chinese influence.
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- matheusmoreira 5y agoIt's an effective way to get every country to make their own text encoding, thereby returning us all to the dark ages of computing where you actually had to care about this stuff instead of just using unicode for everything. I mean seriously, text encodings as a propaganda tool?