*This piece was originally published, in Italian, in the exceedingly innovative (and very Italian) website “Che Futuro.”
*As somebody who spends a lot of time in non-Anglophone countries, this is a situation that I see commonly. I rarely see it as well-described as this.
*I’d be flattered if people thought I wrote this thoughtful essay, but Mark Vanderbeeken wrote it. Mark’s a Belgian guy who lives in Italy, and you can tell that because his English is so superb. I emphasize that Mark wrote it, because eager startup guys with limited English-language skills are sure to link to this blog entry, firmly agreeing with everything Mark says (because it’s true). Since this is my blog, they’ll skip over all the biased English, including this very paragraph, and they will hastily conclude that I wrote it myself. That’s part of the “bias,” you see.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Mark Vanderbeeken: The English Language Innovation Bias | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
