10.12.05
Democratic Internet
Could we have the Internet for 1 week in German, please?
We would all have long conversations with the native english speakers on the effects of living abroad when going online. Reading - Thinking - Writing in foreign terms, mingling your background culture with online culture with local culture, expressing yourself in your own pidgin english.
After that 1 week, a lot of stupid english words should have disappeared from the www. Such as "Yahooligans" (please, yahoo Germany: In Germany, a hooligan isn't only a footballfan - it's a young violent drunk nazi).
We would all have long conversations with the native english speakers on the effects of living abroad when going online. Reading - Thinking - Writing in foreign terms, mingling your background culture with online culture with local culture, expressing yourself in your own pidgin english.
After that 1 week, a lot of stupid english words should have disappeared from the www. Such as "Yahooligans" (please, yahoo Germany: In Germany, a hooligan isn't only a footballfan - it's a young violent drunk nazi).
Labels: techworries
2 Comments:
wonder what it would be to have 1 week 'democratic internet' in India!!! I still find it strange that you consider yourself living aborad - Europe and UK and all of it is so much like one big entity in my head. I guess not! And funny enough, one free week internet in India and you would probabaly have more and more words like Yahooligans! Neo-colonised India is more UK then Germany ever will be. And lastly, I think 'Local internet' is a cool idea!
wonder what it would be to have 1 week 'democratic internet' in India!!! I still find it strange that you consider yourself living aborad - Europe and UK and all of it is so much like one big entity in my head. I guess not! And funny enough, one free week internet in India and you would probabaly have more and more words like Yahooligans! Neo-colonised India is more UK then Germany ever will be. And lastly, I think 'Local internet' is a cool idea!
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