Why do I write this blog in English?
I was asking to myself this question some days ago. My native tongue is French. Why I don’t simply write this blog in French? My thoughts would probably be sharpened by more exact words; by the same time a better understanding of my readers. My first goal, I thought, was to write this blog in English to practice it. What a noble cause for myself. But more I think about it and less it’s the case. It’s sure that it’s helpful and rewarding but I think it’s more then this.
One of the principal characteristic of a blog is the power given to the reader to leave comments on authors’ thoughts. If you check the languages spoken in the world, you’ll see that around 1.3 billions of persons speak English. Most of non English person take English as second tongue. What is interesting with blogs is to get comments from different person, around the world, with different cultures and different point of view. The best tool to achieve this aim is by using English as communication medium to reach the greatest heterogeneous population; to be able to have comments from the widest population possible.
It’s probably why I wrote this blog in English.
Max
January 8, 2005 — 10:59 am
What do you mean with “archive this aim”? Or is it “achieve”? I don’t understand this part. Anyway, what you say is right, and before opening a blog we should ask to ourselves in what language, before choosing the template or the name. I’d like to switch my blog in italian into one in English, or make a two-language blog. Maybe I’ll do this, for the same reasons shown in this post. Bye Max
Fred
January 8, 2005 — 11:00 am
Hello Max! Oups, a little type error 🙂 It’s a thing that my brain don’t necessary process and catch after some rereads… probably the product of my no-so-good english. So thank for the point out, I’ll change this right now! Leave me a note if you start writing your blog in english, otherwise I can’t really follow it right now 😐 Thank alot, Salutations, Fred
Max
January 8, 2005 — 11:00 am
Ok, but don’t expect some blog-masterpiece, really! Bye Max
Fred
January 8, 2005 — 11:01 am
Hehehehe, you are hard toward yourself Max! I don’t expect less than this =) Bye, Fred
K. Todd Storch
January 30, 2005 — 11:02 am
Fred, I’m glad you do so us English only types can participate and keep up with you! Keep up the good work. Todd
Fred
January 30, 2005 — 11:02 am
Hello Todd! Thank for the kind words. As long as people understand what I write I’ll be happy with it! (but I try hard to improve the situation) Fred