in reply to Natural language of monks.

I'm a non-native English speaker. There are two Perl forums I participate in that have non-English postings. One forum is the mailinglist of the largest Perlmongers group in this country. It does have posts in English and the local language. The monthy meetings, including the talks, are often in English, sometimes in the local language, depending on who shows up. We have several members who don't speak the local language well enough to participate otherwise, and there's only one person who objects to using English.

The other forum is the usenet group comp.lang.perl.misc. Unlike some people think, it's not an English only group (after all, it's not en.comp.lang.perl.misc, is it?). Every now and then, there's a post in German, French, Swedish or some other language. Unfortunally, such posts often get flamed - usually by some dumb Americans who think the world ends at the US - Canada border.

Abigail