Can you imagine the explosive growth linguistic diversity can cause for the steemit platform?
We will be exposed to even more diverse, informative and interesting content if we can get all authors, from different countries, on all the continents, contributing actively using their native language on steemit, with English translations added.
This will make everyone feel more part of a family and at home, forming their own groups.
This platform will become less daunting for non-English speakers.
The effect linguistic diversity can have on this platform.
Here are the basic stats on Linguistic Diversity we can get from 4 continents alone.
- Africa – In Africa there are about 1 250-3 000 languages spoken.
A) South Africa – 11 official languages.
Afrikaans, English, IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa - Asia – 2 269 languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nepal - Europe – 24 Official languages
Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe - Ociania – The 3 major groups: Malay, Tagalog, Polynesian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Oceania
Conclusion:
As we see we have huge problems with plagiarism on steemit. The plague of plagiarized articles is sticking out its nasty head more often, are mostly driven by financial reward and greed.
So what will be the solution other than a number of people scanning daily for plagiarized material?
Do we write our articles in English, the worlds Universal Language or our Native Tongue?
"Poor English" can mask plagiarism. Perhaps the solution is linguistic diversity.
Hence we now have a thriving Russian community, Spannish and Portuguese are in the works. Chinese and other Asian languages appear from time to time and I have seen the odd bit of French.