I think I can give a pretty good example of what Mister Fixit was talking about here...
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but the limitations of the language mean at they cannot express what they feel as profoundly as if they were using English.
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A big example, as notated famously by Eric S. Raymond, is that English is the language of choice when talking about technological things and explaining technology within the technology circle, because of its rich vocabulary, especially when it comes to technical things. Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, comments his code in English, and notes his English speaking ability played a large part in drawing attention to the project and getting people to help out and such in the beginning.
Furthermore, as Eric S. Raymond notes that that many people who speak the same language will switch to English when needing a more technologically capable description or some such. This makes its best showing in the hacker community, which is by and most almost exclusively, based on numbers, English speaking when it comes to software, warez, code, and technological things.
Even in China where the people tried so hard to use Chinese only for computer things, the government had to adopt the standard language for information (IE: calling it a firewall or DNS or DHCP instead of whatever Chinese name they had for it) just so people could keep up with those Chinese who were already tech savy thanks to their runs in the underground.
I think this is at least one, I think it a good example though, to illustrate the point.