Source: Ideas on Europe
Published on by Ronny Patz
Spanishwalker has already argued some months ago that one of the problems of the European blogosphere is the dominance of English. He sees the problem in English being the gatekeeper language between blogging and writing in most other European languages.In consequence, conversation between Swedish and Spanish bloggers would only take place if they (a) write and read in English or (b) if someone reading either language refers to them (e.g. through lining) in her English-language blog.
But there’s a second problem with English that Spanishwalker doesn’t address: It makes us (whoever “us” may be) by CouponDropDown">focus too much on British debates. Daniel Hannan today blogging the same old story of why the UK would and should not be in the EU is getting 100x more attention than a Polish politician/writer writing about how the future EU agriculture should look like. [Update: A good examples is this fascinating recent Polish blog post (Google translated) on the pros/cons of the Union.] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>