Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dr. Keith G. Bowden" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:17:29 +0100 |
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What I would like to see is the Americans learning English as a FIRST language.
Keith (England)
----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> To: "Li Yang" <leo@zh-kernel.org> Cc: "Rob Landley" <rob@landley.net>; "Gerrit Huizenga" <gh@us.ibm.com>; "Kunai, Takashi" <kunai@linux-foundation.jp>; <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org>; <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>; <jack@suse.cz>; <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>; <gregkh@suse.de>; <pavel@ucw.cz>; <tim.bird@am.sony.com>; <arjan@infradead.org>; <sam@ravnborg.org>; <jengelh@computergmbh.de>; <joe@perches.com>; <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>; <hansendc@us.ibm.com>; <davem@davemloft.net>; <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>; <kenistoj@us.ibm.com>; <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>; <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>; <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:12 PM 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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