Too much English on Web 'risks crowding out other cultures'

[tyler811]

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[FoBoT]

screw the UN , we invented it, we can use all the English we want

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
screw the UN , we invented it, we can use all the English we want

we didnt quite invent it, although we may as well have

 

[compnovice]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
screw the UN , we invented it, we can use all the English we want

OMG! Al Gore visits ATOT

 

[JSFLY]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: FoBoT
screw the UN , we invented it, we can use all the English we want

we didnt quite invent it, although we may as well have

Explain....

If our US military didn't develop the internet during the 1970s, then who did?

 

[Ika]

Hasn't English/American culture already basically crowded out other cultures?

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: JSFLY

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: FoBoT
screw the UN , we invented it, we can use all the English we want

we didnt quite invent it, although we may as well have

Explain....

If our US military didn't develop the internet during the 1970s, then who did?

ah, my mistake. I think www was invented by someone else

 

[Greenman]

The greatest day in US history will be the day we pull the plug on the UN.

 

[Mo0o]

American hegemony has always been an issue in the preservation of national cultures, the internet is no different. besides, seems kind of difficult to have a website based on an oral only language.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Greenman
The greatest day in US history will be the day we pull the plug on the UN.

hope not. if we can get rid of the corruption, politics etc the UN can be a great entity.

the potential is great. to bad it did not turn out how it could be.