Most user interface designs are influenced by an ideology of monolingualism and therefore support only monolingual interactions. Monolingualism is the condition of being able to interact in only one language. The ideology of monolingualism, however, is the notion that communication happens through and by only one language at a time. A more honest examination of everyday linguistic practices reveals that even if one is familiar with one language group only-English, for example-they have fluency in multiple dialects of that language-academic, professional, and so on. Furthermore, a significant portion of the population of the U.S. and the world is bilingual or multilingual.
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