[oak perl] "Natural" Languages

[George Woolley]

Belden,
Kool!

Why do I ask? 
Well, I'm aware of several motivations, two of which follow,
and all of which have to do with future contacts 
with PM groups around the world.

(1) I'm thinking of doing a follow up to my earlier "Perl is all over" Quest,
with more and deeper coverage of the Globe.
I'd like to involve others in our group and
I'd also like us to be able to connect with some of the groups I ignored
because of my limited knowlege of different languages. 
(2) I'm thinking it might be fun to have ambassadors
(or some such) to other Perl groups,
many of which are in other countries in other areas of the world.

I've actually talked to Arden Schaeffer about being French ambassador.
He knows French quite well and, in fact, speaks it every day.
He's a linguist and he might later take on other countries.
He's definitely interested.

Hm, Let me imagine for a moment.
Nobody has agreed to anything, but, who knows, maybe:

other Bay Area PM -- Ken
US South -- Mike

Corsica -- Arden
France -- Arden
Russia -- Mike
Taiwan -- Belden

Central America -- George
South America -- Belden

Or perhaps you prefer to be ambassador to a different area or country.
(Or not to be one at all)

I like that there are lots of areas not covered,
so newcomers could get involved easily, if they wanted to.
It's kool to know various languages,
but an ambassador doesn't absolutely have to know the language.
Besides which, there are many openings for countries or areas 
which speak primarily English.
Hey, who wants to be ambassador to the United Kingdom,
which includes the wonderful  London.pm.
Or maybe there should be a separate ambassador for London. 

Now that I think of it, these two ideas work well together.

Best wishes,
George

P.S> Belden, thanks for asking!


On Monday 25 November 2002 3:33 pm, Belden Lyman wrote:
> George Woolley wrote:
> > Hm, Belden mentions Chinese in his recent post.
> > Anyone know any other "natural" languages (i.e. besides English)
> > well enough they can understand some of the Perl Mongers sites
> > around the world containing them?
>
> I grok Chinese and Spanish. Spanish gives me a toe-hold to
> French and Portuguese.
>
> > For example: Taipei.pm site at http://taipei.pm.org
> > The October 18 post looks like this to me:
> >     PHP, Perl, Python ..., ... Java. Net ..., ..., ... Party ...!
> > where the ...s are the language characters
> > of which I, unfortunately, am totally ignorant.
>
> They're saying that PHP, Perl, and Python are not
> in the Taiwanese "Common Business Terms" dictionary
> (or some similar title) - but Java and .NET are.
>
> I looked at the other websites and can follow them,
> mostly.
>
> George, why do you ask?
>
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