[dwaltrip]

The assumptions, the arrogance, the blame passing, the lack of understanding of contexts not your own... You are basically impling all non-english speakers should be so very ashamed that they are holding back broad human progress with their stupid insistency in continuing to use their native tongue. Which I find absurd. (Btw, I only speak English).

As technologists, maybe we could find solutions that, ya know, don't force massive, life altering requirements on billions of people?

[lucian1900]

Not ashamed, they may not have had the resources or opportunity to learn English. But as flawed as the language is, it has won.

It's not hard to speak at least two languages and one of them should be English.

There is no solution as good as the whole world being bilingual.