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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:03:43PM +0000, Lance Davis wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
- Wrt. language vs regional: can someone comment how much e.g. pt_BR
differs from pt_PT?
A lot.
Is it like US English and UK English, or do they differ to such an extend that it would be difficult to communicate on one list?
As a rule of thumb, a pt_BR speaker would have as much (or sometimes more) trouble communicating with someone who speaks pt_PT as with someone that speaks spanish.
Sometime even more, since there are words that are common, but with completely different meanings.
I think it is a relevant "data point" for this discussion.
True.
Sounds like we need different lists for those then - what about different moderators ??
As I mentioned to Ralph on IRC, Brazil is the only country with a different portuguese language. So you have pt_BR for Brazil, and pt_PT for all the other portuguese speaking countries. So, if we are really going to have different lists, I suggest centos-br and centos-pt.
The problem is that I don't know how much traffic, if any, we are going to have on -pt on that setup. On the other hand, if we only have a -pt list, I think most brazilians will steer away from it.
In a nut shell, I have portuguese :)
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)