[oak perl] "Natural" Languages

cajun at cajuninc.com cajun at cajuninc.com
Mon Nov 25 19:48:50 CST 2002


George, you should edit your listing a bit.

Russian - Mike's g/f
Georgian (As in Fed. Rep. of Georgia) - Mike's g/f

Mike

Quoting George Woolley <george at metaart.org>:

> 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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