English?

[beyondsociety]

I've noticed that alot of people on the os development forum do not know the english language and so its hard for me to help them when they need help.

I think they should learn english and then come back and ask their questions.

What do you people think? Am I being narrow minded?

[SGreenslade]

Yes, but that's besides the point.

In the meantime, since neither you nor those members in the OS development thread can communicate on a common language, there's nothing much you can do about it at the moment, can you? Either way, learning a language takes time and problems especially in programming usually require immediate solutions. So what is there to do?

[stonedzealot]

That was quite a hickish comment. Along the lines of "why cain't joo all speak Gawd's own English!?"...yeah, quite narrow minded.

Of course, to view it from another point of view, there are thousands of English people and Indians (taught by Brits) that speak much more "proper" English and are probably laughing at the way we speak, *especially on the forums*

[Kon-Tiki]

There's a secret page on my site that teaches basic English. I forgot to upload one thing, but that'll be up there as well once I find that thing again.

-Kon-Tiki-

modified by Nick: fixed link.

[Andrew_Baker]

Why speak English, anyway? Learn Esperanto, an international language with no irregular or nonphonetic words!

Also, the OS developers should have one language in common with each other... or two! Assembler and C

[df]

i used to know japanese.. looking to learn spanish (i'm gonna walk at some point the inca trail.. and hike all around south america...)

it was a toss up between spanish and portugese.. i chose spanish in the end.. well havnt started really.. got a couple of 'teach yourself' type books..

being close to spain also helps! lots of spanish speakersin london...