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A widely spoken natural language. Langauge code: __en__ or __eng__
-The official language of countries such as the Unitied
Kingdom (__en-uk__), NewZealand (__en-nz__), and Australia (__en-au__), ,
English is also the one of the
offical languages
of the European Community, the United Nations, the International Standards Organisation ([ISO]) and [#wlug]. Besides it's
offical capacity, English is also the default language of science, business and travel world-wide. It is spoken by millions of speakers as a second language and mangled by the Americans (__en-us__) ThisIsNotAmerica.
+The official language of countries such as the United
Kingdom (__en-uk__), NewZealand (__en-nz__), and Australia (__en-au__), [
English]
is also an
offical language
of the European Community, the United Nations, the International Standards Organisation ([ISO]) and [#wlug]. Besides its
offical capacity, [
English]
is also the default language of science, business and travel world-wide. It is spoken by millions of speakers as a second language and mangled by the Americans (__en-us__).
ThisIsNotAmerica.
-Many, maybe most, [
OpenSource]
projects use [English] as the primary language of communication, but most non-trivial projects (incluing this wiki) have valued contributors for whom [English] is a second langauge. Please do not assume that because someone is not a fluent speaker (or writer) of english
that they do not have a valuable part to play in a project. In generally
neither cluelessness nor cluefulness is dependent on the language in wihch
it is expressed.
-
-''Note: parts of this are my opinion, and probably mispelt'' --- StuartYeates
-
-Yes. "United" for the UK. Leave "its" without an apostrophe. "Spelled" for "spelt" is optional, but two Ss are required, I think. KenMcAllister
+Many, maybe most, OpenSource projects use [English] as the primary language of communication, but most non-trivial projects (incluing this wiki) have valued contributors for whom [English] is a second langauge. Please do not assume that because someone is not a fluent speaker (or writer) of [English]
that they do not have a valuable part to play in a project. In general
neither cluelessness nor cluefulness is dependent on the language in which
it is expressed.