The way we speak and write is our history and we are losing sight of that. Many kids in Australia now speak using a US dialect despite having nobody in their in-person communities who speak it. Is Australia's history with English a good one, no. I do think the dialects spoken and the nuances of the English language in Australia both written and spoken are worth preserving, because if we are being honest US English is no better. No language is better or worse but it is clear there is a hierarchy. When a website uses the US flag to represent English a choice is being made, it shouldn't be a subconscious one.
I cannot stress enough how strong technology is as a colonial tool. Ever learned that a language you didn't expect, uses the Roman alphabet? It was a common choice due to the printing press largely being available only in that alphabet, when things moved digital the same applied. Many languages do not exist as a digital script. You cannot type many languages nor can you display them in a digital format. One thing I have grown more and more exhausted over is the repeated forcing of largely US English even in parts of the world that speak and write in a different dialect. I use Australian English but type with a US keyboard despite stronger linguistic similarity to England/United Kingdom English. If I have to face the little red line telling me I'm wrong for adding a 'u' or using an 's' in the place of a 'z', listening to so much of what's online in US English to the point I end up using foreign words as a replacement for the language I grew up speaking before the internet. I know it must be so much harder for anyone else. To the many languages that are forced to fit the Roman alphabet or risk being forgotten or unrepresented.
Again I want to stretch that this is what I see as a speaker of a dialect in the most represented digital language, if this is what I have seen than I think it's fair to assume that things are far worse for any none English languages. I'll leave a somewhat hopeful article bellow.
The Yugambeh Aboriginal people of south east Queensland have one of the Aboriginal Australian languages at the forefront of digital language














