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Starbreaker has Good Takes™ on being an English monolingual on a Global web.

Starbreaker has Good Takes™ on being an English monolingual on a Global web.
https://starbreaker.org/blog/misc/speaking-english-on-multilingual-web/index.html

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entirely agree! Other people taking part in the carnival were talking about this and how framing multilingualism as « you get to speak in your language, with nuance & words you know; I'm responsible for using a translation tool and stay aware of the limits of that tool » might be the best approach for the future :)

"If I visited a space online where English wasn't the primary language, I would not insist that people use English for my sake; I'm still a guest in that virtual space no less than I was a guest in Paris"

i think with all the translation tools available now, it's easier to get around basic language barriers