[Air-l] Hungarian and others

[Mark Warschauer]

I agree with your sentiment, but I think your information is out of 
date.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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