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Idea for a new folder: Foreign language questions.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:23 am
by onion2k
It seems to me that there are a lot of users here who struggle to get answers because of the language barrier. If your first language isn't English it can be tricky to put your question across in a way that lets someone answer it. So, as a little experiment, how about a folder where people can ask questions in other languages? I imagine it'd be quite low traffic, and questions wouldn't be answered very quickly, but is it worth a try? Given that we get a lot of these threads I guess there aren't many non-English PHP forums around so perhaps we could lead the way?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:50 am
by Gente
But pay attention that if somebody doesn't post anything to thread it doesn't mean this thread isn't useful for him.
If you somebody begins a really interesting topic in a foreign language other member won't be able to read it.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:33 am
by Luke
Probably would make moderation kind of tough...

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:20 am
by patrikG
Also would make this board even more unwieldy than it already is. Like the intention, but don't think we can put it into practice.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:31 pm
by Weirdan
-1. It's better for them to learn English since de-facto it's programmers' international language.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:51 pm
by superdezign
Weirdan wrote:-1. It's better for them to learn English since de-facto it's programmers' international language.
Yeah. I always find it interest to see English syntax, and then suddenly foreign lettering.

Re: Idea for a new folder: Foreign language questions.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:53 pm
by stereofrog
onion2k wrote:I guess there aren't many non-English PHP forums around so perhaps we could lead the way?
You're guessing wrong, I'm afraid. National php forum niche is already well covered, at least here in Europe.