[rahulnair23]

Fully agree on the economic merits of English here. I think the point is more than methodological though. It is one of equity and access.

Broad swaths of society don't have the same access to the technology. My mother tongue Malayalam in the 1960's redefined its script to be better suited for typewriters. It is still non-trivial to typeset correctly. Like my Chinese colleagues, there are all sorts of constraints on how text is input.

Machine translation beyond the "main" languages aren't too great. To see bias in action just try English->Turkish, a gender neutral language. "o multu. o mutsuz." translates to "he's happy. she is unhappy."

Things built for English don't readily transfer. Its worth raising awareness around this as Emily does.

[natalyarostova]

I think people are aware, it’s just that English is clearly the most important. That’s just reality.