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LINGUIST List 17.2177

Fri Jul 28 2006

Media: Non-English Internets

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        1.    Mark Jones, Non-English Internets
Message 1: Non-English Internets
Date: 28-Jul-2006
From: Mark Jones <markjjoneshotmail.com>
Subject: Non-English Internets


The technology supplement of the British daily broadsheet 'The Guardian'
carried the article below on July 27th about the dangers of not responding
to growing pressure to internationalise the internet, especially with
respect to non-English speaking users:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1830481,00.html

Mark J. Jones
Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
http://kiri.ling.cam.ac.uk/mark/
mjj13cam.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
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