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Claudio González
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August 6, 2005
Question

Still no supervision in the French and Spanish forums?

  • August 6, 2005
  • 409 replies
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I forgot that threads are extremely short lived in this forum, and the discussion that really began within an unrelated thread, here

Pierre Courtejoie, "Shouldn't these links be removed as soon as possible?" #8, 27 Feb 2005 1:21 pm

has already gone to the Archives, where it is in danger of going to the limbus in the near future.

I still think that this is an important issue, and still wait to see any improvement in those forums showing that the messages by Pierre and myself on the subject have not fallen in a void. Although we both value and thank Neil Keller for his attempts to get some reaction in higher quarters, his attempts have unfortunately been a failure.

It is pathetic to see pages in the forums in Spanish with templates that are written in a mixture of English and a very bad Spanish. It is even more pathetic that JC stopped more than a year ago feeling authorized to introduce any non trivial change to improve this situation. The worst part is however to feel that there is no one listening, or at least willing to admit that there might be problems in those forums.

I feel very disappointed.
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    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 15, 2006
    I clearly understand why you are not in a position to promise anything at this stage.

    For what it may be worth, my personal experience is that separate localized forums is by far a much better solution than changing the interface language, as this affects all forums and not only localized ones. Not less important, one gets the impression of "belonging" there, not just being appended.

    However, if language selection leads to sharing the advantages of the other forums, such as having host/moderators, and properly written fixed texts, I could easily and gratifyingly survive with it.
    john_cornicello__retired_
    Inspiring
    August 15, 2006
    Thanks for the discussion about handling of languages. The current trend in forum software appears to be letting the user select the language they want for the interface. The way we did it here was a long and painfull process. But it does sound like it works out better for some users. No promises, though, about how it goes from here forward through the integration.
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    August 15, 2006
    http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=CN
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    August 15, 2006
    Claudio,

    Chinese is not a language but a nationality. If you count all 241 languages spoken by the Chinese, you have more than 1,300 million (1.3 American "billion") native speakers. A little more than 900 million of those speak Mandarin, the number 1 in the list of world languages.

    Number 2 is Hindi.

    Spanish is number 3.

    English is number 4.
    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 15, 2006
    Not probably, certainly. In round numbers, 1,000 millions of native speakers of Chinese, 330 millions Spanish, 320 million English.
    Participating Frequently
    August 15, 2006
    Native Chinese apeakers probably outnumber both. There's a potential growth market out there, just waiting for its own forum. :)
    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 15, 2006
    Still, native speakers of Spanish outnumber native speakers of English. It seems, though, that we are not very good buyers of Adobe products. Otherwise it would be difficult to understand that you can download tryout versions of InDesign in English, French and German, but not in Spanish. :-(
    PECourtejoie
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 15, 2006
    Indeed, when a country has a language that is not spoken all over the world, usually its citizens do speak English, or an "international language".

    Having many fora for every language/country could lead to segment the big international community of the "english speaking" fora... I see your point.
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 14, 2006
    Claudio, Pierre,

    >maybe would it be nice to have a Danish forum...

    No, please. Count me as bilingual, with English as the first language. Besides, there would be no one to talk to.
    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 14, 2006
    Well, at least JC knows and cares about the issue. But I fear he will now be too busy for some time.