I got an email a few days ago from one of the banks i do business with. It read something like privacy notice and language practices now. I decided to read it and to my astonishment it said that from here on out they would only communicate in English.
Is this a company simply cutting costs? Or is it a sign of the good times coming? I dunno but i found it interesting
I think supporting more than English exposes them to a lot more than one might initially conclude.
If one supports Spanish, then why not Swahili? Why not Indonesian? It's difficult to justify from a legal standpoint supporting one language that is not English, and not another. Our government (as perhaps is seen most notably at the DMV) has fallen into this trap. And there are race/language hustlers who have set up an entire parasite economy on the back of these policies.
For private/publicly held companies, they have to justify this to their stakeholders/shareholders. It's indefensible. Are you telling me your Warranty says exactly the same thing in these 28 different languages? If so, prove it. if not, why would someone who speaks Bantu get a better warranty than someone who speaks Tagalog? It's a nightmare.