Installing Monolingual for more HD space

I understand that many users are deleting(?) the basic app's that come with the MB,and then re-installing certain programs...such as monolingual.....are there any downsides to this? I think I heard somewhere that monolingual does increase HD space, but has a bug (defect)....???

To further elaborate on avoiding problems, see these FAQ's from the Monolingual homepage:
Q. Monolingual made my OS X installation unusable.
A. Chances are that you have accidently removed the English language files. Some language packs are only a subset of other language packs (for example "U.S. English" is a subset of "English"), so you will have an incomplete OS X installation if you remove "English" but not "U.S. English". In general, you should never remove the English language files unless you know what you are doing.
Q. Should I remove the non-Intel architectures on my Intel based Mac?
A. You can use Monolingual to remove non-Intel architectures for your installed applications (even if some of the applications are PowerPC-only; Monolingual is smart enough not to remove PPC forks if those are the only ones in the universal binary). However, you should not strip the System frameworks if you want to use Rosetta. Rosetta needs the PowerPC code for all frameworks used by the emulated application and if it can't find it, you may see messages such as the following in the console:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa:
mach-o, but wrong architecture

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