It's an interesting take, but I don't particularly agree. I think it's great that more people start publishing in their own language and, thus, promoting a part of their culture, but here I am, a french speaker and writer writing to you in english. If I haven't known english, I can garantee that I would be much less educated because most of the information available almost everywhere is in english, wich can be changed if more people write in their language, but as it is right now, writing in your mother tongue is limiting the number of people you can reach. For exemple, I could have not answered to you in french, because there is a great chance you wouldn't have understood what I am saying and at the same time, you decided to write this in english, still, because you wanted most people here to understand you.
I guess the language you chose to write in must depend on what you are trying to achieve. If you have something important and major to say to the world, say it in english, so everyone will here you. If it's more personal or cultural, write it in your own tongue, so it sounds and reads like it should.
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Yes, that is exactly the tension that I am trying to address here. I've been debating this in my mind for a while now. While I am trying to consume the least english-language content as possible, I still read the vast majority of my books in english, because that's the language they are written in. For example, I don't think there is a single book on permaculture written in spanish out there. I intend to change that, to steer the availability of information in my language, but scarcely knowledgeable as I am, this is not a short-term goal.
This is a sort of simulacrum on a series of posts I plan to make, which are on big, important topics, so I choose to write them in English, for the very same reason you mentioned. In a way, I made this post with an oxy-moronic title: I wish to go against the english language, yet I will keep using, regrettably, I have virtually no choice.
And yes, you are right. You made a post in French recently, and I did not open it. Despite telling people to use LLMs to translate stuff, I do not to it myself. I do not use LLMs at all.
Contradictory, incongruent? Perhaps. We "modern" people are in the particular position of being alive and pushing against life itself systematically and almost thoroughly. So contradiction is part of my cultural makeup.
I guess the point I am trying to make is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯