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| MDMAlliance said: The reason things are like that is because the vast majority of Internet users speak English and English only. When you speak another language on a website, there usually isn't a way to tell what is being said. Allowing that would be just as good as letting anyone say anything in any language. |
The vast majority of internet users these days speak Chinese. Also it is a question of the community of the website. I use many internet-sites, that have a german-speaking community.
| MDMAlliance said:
edit: As for the traveling the world part, that one has a lot to do with globalization. America is pretty much at the center of globalization, and globalization requires communication. Since Americans aren't going to learn the languages of other countries, as it would be way too difficult to learn something like 30+ languages, they learn our language (English) instead. Of course, America isn't the only one doing this. Obviously England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain all have their roles. |
America was the center of globalization in the 20th century. Now that moves to China and Korea, and probably in future more and more also to India. But that is not the reason for the Lingua franca of these days (the term shows, that french at some time in history was a dominating language). The reason has to do more with cultural export. Movies from America and english spoken music from Great Britain are the main reasons why english is the common language at these days. If China, Korea and India will export as much culture and if that influence the spoken language will be seen.
