Re^3: [PT_BR] Escrever em PortuguÃªs no Perlmonks

air traffic controlers are required to learn English, and so all of them can actually speak English. That isn't the case for Perl programmers, there are lots of people out there that doesn't know enough English to participate on this community.

You can adopt several possitions when confronted with this situation:

I don't care, I can speak English, and the monastery is a comfortable place for me as it is now, If you can't speak English, well, it is your problem, because you should, it is the lingua franca on the Internet.
well, this poor perl programmers out there, not being able to speak English, they should have their own perlmonks.(pt|fr|de|es|tw|...)
I would not mind people posting in other languages on the monastery.
I believe a multilingual monastery would be a richer experience, I would be able to conversate with more people from a broader world in several languages (and get Portuguese lessons gratis, great!)

So, where are you?

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Re^4: [PT_BR] Escrever em PortuguÃªs no Perlmonks by Ben Win Lue (Friar) on Jun 29, 2005 at 08:22 UTC
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.	[reply]

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Re^4: [PT_BR] Escrever em PortuguÃªs no Perlmonks
by Ben Win Lue (Friar) on Jun 29, 2005 at 08:22 UTC

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.

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