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Definitely the last position. And it is not just richer, it can be easier to work with.
For me, I often have to work with french persons and english is our common language (which is good, because my french sucks). They have two kinds of english documentation:
- Docs written by programmers who don't speak english very good. The texts are sometimes hard to read and very often misleading words are used. (maybe they come from babelfish experiments).
- Docs translated by professionel interpreters. These docs are worse, because the interpreters don't have a clue, what they are writing about. So the text is formal easy to read but often doesn't make any sense.
In either case it is good to have the same documentation in original french, even with my poor french knowledge.
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A lot more people know some english then know Spanish...
Not to be (too much) picky, but I'll parse that as "A lot more people here in the monastery"...
Best regards
-lem, but some call me fokat
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Ok, I'll bite :) - but just for the sake of argument.
Not to be too picky, but you could also parse that as "a lot more people in the world"
The reference that anonymonk cited, places english (as first language) in 341 millions and spanish (again, as first language) in 322 to 358 millions. Here, I take this as a "could", although I tend to believe the real total is closer to the second number. (I may be biased since spanish is my first tongue). This would place me in agreement with the quoted opinion.
Also, with ~50 million of school-going USA citizens (source), many of them getting spanish classes because of this, the difference in the second language category seems blurrier.
Because of this, I'll keep my parser as it is, because with the current conditions, I'll most definitely be right within 2 to 3 years (assuming I'm not right today). OTOH, we should all be learning chinese :)
Best regards
-lem, but some call me fokat
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