| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Adrian Maier <adrian(dot)maier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Multi-language to be or not to be |
| Date: | 2007-02-14 08:23:19 |
| Message-ID: | 45D2C6F7.9050708@postgresql.org |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> P.S. Josh D, you are absolutely wrong about our language composition. The
> majority of our community speaks a first language other than English, and at
> least half of the non-English speakers aren't fluent in English. There are
> large communities in Brazil, Spanish-speaking South America, Italy and
> Germany -- as well as Japan -- which you aren't aware of because they don't
> join the English-speaking MLs for obvious reasons. When I used to answer
> webmaster@, for example, I got *more* questions in Portuguese than in
> English.
>
That certainly isn't the case now - the vast majority of webmaster@
emails are in English - perhaps that indicates that the regional sites
are more widely used these days.
I do agree with what you are saying though.
Regards, Dave.
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