[PockyMePink]

I think it's because people enjoy communicating with others around the world. Just because you want to comminicate with someone across the world, doesn't mean that you have any desire to learn their language. Many people use translators every day to send letters and messages around the world.

In fact, I have a cousin that lives in Bulgaria who used to write us. He didn't know English, and went to a translator to have his messages translated for us to read. It wasn't "cooler" to write his letters that way, it was just convient and helped communication between us.