Re: language / idioma

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:25:16AM -0500, RLake@oxfam.org.uk wrote:
> 
> > Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > >>É uma pena, acho que poderíamos criar uma lista em português.

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> Of course, English is probably the lingua franca of the community,
> lamentable though that might be. So there are probably more people
> who can provide responses to messages written in English. But we
> should not exclude the expertise of people who find English difficult,
> nor should we limit their ability to ask questions. Perhaps some of us
> could volunteer to translate substantive messages between languages...

I for one am extremely thankful that everybody here can speak English
better than I can speak Portuguese or Spanish! :)  I suppose I should
return the favour, and actually get around to learning a second spoken
language.

I don't have a problem with other languages being used on this list -
perhaps we can prefix the subject line with the ISO language code?

-- 
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