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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.

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

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