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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Sunday, June 6, 2004 7:58:11 am by AristotlePagaltzis
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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.  
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-''Note: parts of this are my opinion, and probably mispelt'' --- StuartYeates  
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-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.