[Cmi-brasil] Re: [New-imc] Re: americalatina.indymedia.org

[Isadora Fernandes]

So I believe that the solution would be that EVERYBODY should write 
everything in its original language and AT LEAST in one more language?

Because, I mean, if I write in Portuguese and has ALSO to provide a 
translation of the text in English, even if I am not able to do speak that 
language, then those who speak English should do the same effort and 
translate its text to Spanish or any other language used by the ones on the 
list.

SALUDOS

xisax


>From: changsing <changsing at paranoici.org>
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>Subject: [Cmi-brasil] Re: [New-imc] Re: americalatina.indymedia.org
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:18:00 +0200
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> > Most people from the IMCs in Latin America cant read english either. > 
>Why can't you English speaking people do an effort once in a while? > Is 
>that so hard? We have to do it all the time.
> >
> > Feasable alternative? Learn Esperanto.
>
>what effort should we do? learn portuguese? or spanish?
>esperanto is plain bullshit, it's an artificial language with no 
>background, and it's spoken by a tiny minority. why then would all the 
>people have to learn that language? it isn't practical at all (and let me 
>stress that my objection is exclusively practical).
>i recognize that a lot of people don't speak english and therefore may have 
>major problems following the international lists, but...
>let's face it: english is the most widely spoken language, at least in the 
>indymedia network. therefore i think we should all do the effort of 
>providing englih versions of what we write, so that the discussion can ben 
>available to as many people as possible.
>we won't solve language issues by chosing one language over another, since 
>we can't force anyone to learn one language. otherwise, i think we can have 
>some success overriding this problem by trying to provide translations into 
>different languages of the discussions going on.
>i know it's difficult, and i know also that a lot of people are already 
>doing their best to accomplish this task. we will improve with time, i 
>guess.
>greets
>
>
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