What I would like to see is the Americans learning English as a FIRST language.
Keith (England) ----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Li Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Rob Landley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Gerrit Huizenga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kunai, Takashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
