[Air-l] Hungarian and others
Mark Warschauer
markw at uci.edu
Tue Oct 5 08:40:52 PDT 2004
I agree with your sentiment, but I think your information is out of
date. The percentage of Websites in English is probably in the range
of 60-65%, or perhaps even less by now --- still out of proportion to
speakers of English, but far less than 97%.
Mark
>About 10% of the world's population has access to the Internet but
>97% of web sites are designed in English. If you need reference for
>these statistics let me know but unless we recognize the importance
>and validity of other languages in cyberspace, we can find ourselves
>on the receiving end of the global spectrum.
>
>If anything, we should encourage research and scholarly contribution
>in other, lesser known (to the English-speaking world) languages.
>
>Jarek
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Mark Warschauer
Associate Professor, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Informatics
University of California, Irvine
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