<div dir="auto">The international language would be English. It is after all the language of trade and as a consequence absorbed many words from other languages.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But that is taking a pragmatic view and is only one minor voice amongst all the contributors. There will be many other voices decrying its use.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One approach would be to tag name:en in areas where the local language differs or the local written language is unusable by a significant number of people either because of hardware / software issues or literacy issues.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, 11:00 am Andy Townsend, <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 06/12/2019 15:10, Tomek wrote:<br>
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<div>W dniu 19-12-06 o 16:08, Tomek pisze:<br>
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<span lang="en"><span title="">Is this change acceptable and can I
continue?</span></span><br>
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<p>Not yet. Wait what people say in reply. <br>
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<p>I personally am not a fan of using 8 different names in one name
tag (though some countries that have multiple equal languages do
favour that nationally). The example here "Baltijas jūra /
Baltijos jūra / Itämeri / Läänemeri / Morze Bałtyckie / Östersjön
/ Østersøen / Ostsee / Балтийское море" seems a bit clumsy. <br>
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<p>Is there an international language used within shipping
worldwide? Perhaps that would be a better option than this.</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy</p>
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