Language musings, part 2

tag(s): #useless-facts #meta #español Recently I wondered why I default to English in this space. Is it a matter of reach? Or am I truly "brain bilingual"? Thus English and Spanish are really equivalent for me? (Spoiler, no, they are not... 🙂) Or something else entirely? As I shared in that post, I recently started learning Japanese. I am looking up translations for words and symbols kanji often. In one of those instances, I noticed that I mostly do it to/from English. I connected this to my earlier question and the answer came to me, like a revelation. I see English as the "default online and computer language". In years of yore, Microsoft published a lot of documentation on C#, .NET, IIS, etc. in Spanish. But I would always go for the English version. Unless I am looking up something specifically related to Spanish or Argentina, I search the web English. Ditto for Claude chats, the ones for tech topics are "obviously" in English. But really, using Spanish is more the exception than…