What I would like to see is the Americans learning English as a FIRST
language.
Keith (England)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer
> Li Yang wrote:
> >
> > I think you worried too much about this problem. :) Let me explain
> > the situation here in China more clearly. Actually, English is
> > mandatory in most schools and universities. Only very few people
> > learn other language as a second language. Therefore software
> > developers who are almost educated should have the basic English
> > skill. However, that doesn't mean that they can read English or
> > communicate with native English speaker very easily. Consider your
> > second language learn in school for analogy.
>
> Actually, I disagree. English *is* the second language learned in
> school for most European developers (except, obviously, the ones from
> the British isles), and we don't have that problem.
>
> > Read in English will be much slower and more likely to cause
> > misunderstanding. This will
> > reduce the likelihood greatly of English documentation being read. If
> > we are promoting contribution to the Linux community, we should
> > maximum the possibility that these key documents being read.
> > Translation will serve this purpose very well.
>
> What we have found in Europe, is that that it has limited value, and
> that the closer to the core you are, the less value it is, because at
> that stage you should be communicating more with other developers.
> Putting yourself behind a wall of translation is unfortunately a
> detriment in that way.
>
> -hpa
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