[scribus] languages

[Gregory Pittman]

On 12/30/2010 08:17 AM, John Culleton wrote:
>
> English, for better or for worse, has become the common language on
> the Internet. If members converse in some other tongue those of us who
> are monoglot English speakers get left out of the conversation. (My
> French of half a century ago is mostly forgotten and nobody speaks
> Latin any more.) But most posts are question and answer in nature. If
> the poster gets a competent answer back in a language they understand
> then the mission is accomplished in part. The rest of us don't get the
> benefit of listening in or of contributing to the thread however.

I would say that the _primary_ goal of a question-answer pair is that 
that questioner was able to get his question asked sensibly and that it 
was answered reasonably completely. The rest of us are just bystanders. 
The feeling of being left out that English speakers have sometimes is a 
reminder that those who understand English only a little feel like this 
most of the time with what they read here.

As we have said before, if you want some help understanding a post in 
English or some other language, it's just a matter of asking. In many 
cases, when it is recognized that some information is important and 
novel, someone will jump in and translate for the wider audience. Many 
of these other language exchanges, while piquing the interest of 
English-speakers, really involve things that have been explained before 
in English and were not understood fully.

Greg