Ricardo Varas Santana wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@novell.com> wrote:
On 02/14/2009 09:35 AM, Piotrek Juzwiak wrote:
In my case i find english language to be at least "primitive", i should explain what i mean because i don't want to offend anyone. In my language almost every word has it's own meaning, what i mean by that is that in english one word can have several meanings for example free where in my language we have at least two words for that
I'm not sure I'd call that primitive, but it's certainly more complicated for non-native (and sometimes native) speakers.
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Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier jzb@zonker.net http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ Twitter/Identi.ca: jzb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
I find english an OK and not so complicated language. For technical matters it is pretty good, even better than spanish because most of the times you can use less words in english for the same idea in spanish.
"Free" in spanish has two meanings as well (libre and gratis), and they both are way different. I think it's always to elaborate when words might lead to confusion.
Regards
As a matter of fact most of technical stuff got it's names in English first :) Maybe i used too harsh words but beauty of a language is it's ability to express yourself in as many words as possible right?? Having one word for many things makes it really poor (just my opinion, you don't have to agree with that), i do like using English because there is always place to improvise but still it's going into wrong direction in my opinion. The worst thing i see is usage of english words in our native languages, this sounds at least silly. Being in germany last time i see increased usage of english words instead of "native" german words which i find "brutal" but hey, media are enforcing this on us that way. Looks to me, that in 50 years we will all talk a mixture of english and our native language (if by this time everyone won't talk english only) . Best Bender -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org