On 4/26/05, Denis Lagno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I spent some time contemplating over this list, > and I see that much effort goes into translations, > translations of survey, of questions etc > > I do not understand why is it needed. > Any BSD admin MUST know English well at least at read-only level. > Otherwise how would he read manpages, use google?? >
Hi Denis, I come from a country in which each state talks a different language. Actually the states are divided according to their languages. http://www.ciil.org/languages/indian.html and hence we need a common language to communicate to each other. and that common medium is english ( sometimes hindi also). And most of the computers and computer education are in English. Though there are projects like. http://kannada.sourceforge.net/ by people, all the major things are still done in English language. So I also had the same doubt initially like you have but then I found out that in some European countries they really use their mother tongue with their computers and also do very well with it ( much better than English sometimes). So translation is very very important actually :-) The BSD Project have documentation in those languages and seperate mailinglists for them. Some times Lectures and classes are conducted around the world by experts in these languages also. I heard Jacek Artymiak takes the PF classes somtimes in Polish. kind regards Siju _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
