Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

["Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@xxxxxx>]

I don't really dispute your points, but there is still a need for systems 
to be produced at least in the major languages. Just on Great Britain, 
there are still several native languages (such as Welch). I would not like 
to have to categorize the native languages still spoken in Uzbekastan or 
many other countries. 
But, in air traffic control, English is spoken virtually the world over, 
and probably should be the language used for technical data processing. 

On 31 May 2002 at 13:55, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> Now imagine the task of maintaining multi language documentation if
> you don't know which of remaining languages will loose its edge next.
> What are criteria for judgments about ability of particular language
> to reflect highly technical information? What is probability that
> sufficient number of its native speakers will remain in the nearest
> future?
> Do you really need this head ache?
> The easiest way is to standardize all technical documentation in
> English and don't bother with translations. Even if English will
> vanish as a spoken language it still can be used as a computer
> manual/programming language the same as Latin in medicine.

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Jerry Feldman
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