Re: [PHP-DOC] PHP - Translation to spanish From: Brendan W. McAdams (brendan-lists <email protected>)
Date: 08/11/00

It is - but multinationalization of documentation is always a good thing.
A great number of the latino's i've worked with speak english well but don't
always grasp the linguistic structure completely in the written form.
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Then do it."
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Beckham" <danbeck <email protected>>
To: <phpdoc <email protected>>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] PHP - Translation to spanish

Don't misunderstand me.. I never said that Spanish speaking people don't
exist.. but is it not true that if a Latin/South American individual knows
a second language it is English?

Daniel

At 11:08 AM 08/11/2000 -0400, Brendan W. McAdams wrote:
><shrug>
>My company deals with a very large latin american market, and trust me
there
>is an entire continent of people who speak spanish.
>
>doesn't matter to me much though, as long as I can get the manual in
english
>=)
>-----
>Brendan W. McAdams | ph. (305)377-2880
>email: brendan <email protected> | cell: (305)218-6466
>Programmer/Systems Administrator | pager: (305)277-4879
>Plexus M/2, Inc. | fax: (305)377-2870
>http://www.plexmedia.com
>
>"Always listen to the experts; they'll tell you what can't be done and why.
>Then do it."
> - Robert A. Heinlein
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Daniel Beckham" <danbeck <email protected>>
>To: <brendan-lists <email protected>>
>Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 9:47 AM
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] PHP - Translation to spanish
>
>
>Actually, If I'm thinking correctly, English and French are the two biggest
>"demand" languages. Most bi-lingual people know one of those
>languages. This might not necessarily be true, but my impression of
>regional php users has always been the US, Europe and the Middle
>East. Only Spain or so speaks Spanish there...
>
>Just IMHO...
>
>Daniel
>
>At 07:12 AM 08/11/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >Excellent!
> >I'm honestly surprised this hasn't been done yet; one would think Spanish
> >and English would be the most in-demand languages (call me ethocentric...
> >i dunno).
> >
> >I'd offer to help but my Spanish is pretty bad (Seeing as I live in miami
> >I really should learn it one of these days ...)
> >
> >-brendan