On 5/19/07, Laith Juwaidah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, fine, since the majority, including the leader of this group want to use > Arabic abbreviations, we will. > There is no leaders here!
> But one problem remains, if we use Arabic abbreviations, and those who are > poor in English will learn the Arabic abbreviations the English ones, > wouldn't that separate us from the west? wouldn't that make those people lost > when they happen to have to face the world? I think that teaching children > better English is better than using Arabic terms that they understand..... > That will just make them less interested in English. > This is, sorry, complete nonsense, why don't we drop Arabic and start adopting English in the Arabic world? This will fix the digital divide then! -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian GNU/Linux user Member of Arabeyes translation team [www.arabeyes.org] My Blog: [www.khaledhosny.org] Support Free Knowledge [ar.wikipedia.org] _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
