For some reason, I’ve suddenly started posting in English.
I’ve been a bit reluctant to do that for a number of reasons: 1) there are so many geeky weblogs in English, at least mine would be in French; 2) my written English is certainly not as good as my written French, and that’s not saying much; 3) for most French people, writing your thoughts in English sounds kind of snub, and I don’t want to sound snub.
On the other hand, there are a few arguments in favor of English: 1) a large proportion of my potential audience (i.e. weird geeks all over the world) has absolutely no notion of the French language and have to resort to BabelFish to get a translation and then giggle a little bit about the result and then go read something else; 2) most of the Java/WebLog/whatever crowd is either a native English speaker or can read English effortlessly, so why bother writing in a future ex-language like French; 3) improving my English writing skills will boost my value on the job market and open myriads of business opportunities all over the world; 4) I will join a small crowd of French English-writing bloggers, like Cedric or Roland.
So, well, I’ll try English for a while and see how it goes.