Locith, I didn't mean it to start a language debate or to close anyone out from the discussion, it is the opposite. I will talk about it now to make my point clearer and hope you understand then.
I started this thread in English and German and responded to Zatalyz in English and French as a form of respect. I didn't mean and didn´t want to express English would be more important or more worth than French. I think if we don't use a language as common base, requiring to use as few people as possible to use a translator we build a barrier to join the discussion, close them out.
Let me explain what I mean, please. Imagine a discussion in which all people use a different language and expect all others to use a translator, switching the languages from message to message for following the thread. They use English, French, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Tamil, Spanish and so on, everyone in their own language...how many people do you think will join and follow the discussion if they need to translate almost all posts?
In international correspondence English is still the Lingua Franca although French and Spanish are used in many nations as first language. Sure, you could reply that more people use French (I'm not sure about this) but if we go for the amount of people which speak a language we would need to start to write in Chinese...but how many chinese people are online and how many of them don't know at least basic english? And Chinese is more distant from English than French is, chinese people have much more to learn than others, including the alphabet.
I started this thread in English and German and responded to Zatalyz in English and French as a form of respect. I didn't mean and didn´t want to express English would be more important or more worth than French. I think if we don't use a language as common base, requiring to use as few people as possible to use a translator we build a barrier to join the discussion, close them out.
Let me explain what I mean, please. Imagine a discussion in which all people use a different language and expect all others to use a translator, switching the languages from message to message for following the thread. They use English, French, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Tamil, Spanish and so on, everyone in their own language...how many people do you think will join and follow the discussion if they need to translate almost all posts?
In international correspondence English is still the Lingua Franca although French and Spanish are used in many nations as first language. Sure, you could reply that more people use French (I'm not sure about this) but if we go for the amount of people which speak a language we would need to start to write in Chinese...but how many chinese people are online and how many of them don't know at least basic english? And Chinese is more distant from English than French is, chinese people have much more to learn than others, including the alphabet.