-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtNZ3pdyWzQ5b5ckRAsJCAJ91i8cnrlPLDCOHizHSvlWhDsmMlgCdFKK1 d2DOW4MXc9RHBXicjNCCsOo= =UYWg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----