For quite a while I’ve been pondering language issues online – both on the (social) web generally and here on LostFocus specifically. And I know that many bi- or multilingual bloggers and developers¹ of services on the web are facing the same general dilemma: stay within your local language and connect with local people or switch to the global lingua franca of the internet – English – and communicate globally with like-minded people, while constantly facing the danger of sounding like an idiot due to the fact that one isn’t using his first language.

I did put a lot of thought into this, so much in fact that I am getting too lazy to write it down for a blog post. In essence this is my way of telling you that as of today² this blog here is going to be in English again. I’ll continue using English for most of my online communication – be it on Twitter, on Flickr, on Facebook or whatever happens to come next.

1. and I’m using the term “developers” rather liberal and include designers, programmers and assorted suits [↩]
2. actually a few days ago, ever since I’ve been putting some English texts to the automatically imported del.icio.us links [↩]