[CentOS-devel] Language lists

Mon Jan 22 14:48:54 UTC 2007
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org>

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:06:38PM +0100, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> >I'm mostly fine with what is on there, but please see the discussion
> >points at the bottom of that page.
> 
> - Wrt. HTML e-mail, "strongly discouraged" sounds good to me.

Gotta hate HTML e-mails.

> - 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.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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