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Bertold Bernreuter: emailbernreuter@polylog.org, 16.03.2002, 14:58
Original: multilingual  Why is English multilingual? (Marco), 15.03.2002, 23:26



»» Thank you very much for the remark, I just wanted to express the impotance for everybody in this world, by using the multilingual button. I hope you do understand that, don't you?

Sorry, I don't.
First, how can you know that your message is important for "everybody in this world"? Should this not better be a decision made by the reader and not by the author?
Second, what is the link between importance and multilinguality? Is a monolingual statement of less importance than a multilingual one? Is it not rather the content of a statement that it makes important (or less important) to a reader?
Third, if the owners of the forum would have thought that there should be a possibility to mark the importance of a new message, they would have implemented such feature. Since we think that there is no point in doing so, we didn't implemented that. So, the multilingual button is for indicating that a message is written in more than one language and for nothing else.

Yours sincerely,
Bertold Bernreuter

P.D.
I guess you mean "importance" and not "impotence", saying "impotance".
;-)