Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:38:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Cc: kline@tao.thought.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <199806121738.KAA13739@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980612160028.19080W-100000@elect8> from "Nick Hibma" at Jun 12, 98 04:15:09 pm
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> Could someone translate this into a language called English? Some people
> on this list are non native speakers of English, like myself, and have
> a 'syntax error' or 'decoding error' on the fragment below.
If you could give a specific fragment, I could "translate" it for
you; the "fragment" you attached was rather large: a whole message.
A translation would be too large for this list, especially given
the fact that it would be a repost of the same information, and that
the information itself is dangerously close to being off topic,
like this post. 8-).
> If people could restrict themselves to general English language, not
> slang nor uncommon words and no n dimensional (with n big) sentences,
> that would be appreciated.
Discussions of highly technical issues require *precise* language.
This is why all highly technical fields develop their own jargon.
Most computer scientists couldn't tell you how an Adson-Toennis
scissors differs from a Barraquer corneoscleral scissors, or why
autologous transplants don't require antirejection drugs, etc..
It's possible to be precise in retrograde ("High School") English,
but it takes a lot more words to get the same meaning.
I'm willing to provide retrograde English "translations" if requested,
but I think it should be done in private email, not on the lists.
For comparison, consider someone wanting/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/locore.s
be written in C instead of 386 assembly so that more people could
understand it. It could probably be done, with a small number of
inlines, but it would not be very efficient to do it.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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