Re: Natural language of monks.

[Juerd]

My native language is Dutch. I use Dutch to discuss Perl only in Rotterdam.PM meetings (which, unfortunately, are rare) and when helping people in Dutch IRC channels. It's hard to combine Dutch with Perl because you end up using maybe as much as 30% English after all :)

Although most people understand what I try to say, my English is not quite fluid :) When it comes to non-technical words, my vocabulary is amazingly small. For example: I didn't know what the word "Easter" meant, until last Easter. People in #perlhelp on EFnet thought it was funny, but I felt rather uncomfortable.

My spoken English is even worse. I have no problem understanding spoken English (as long as it's not in some dialect), but when I have to speak it myself, things go wrong. My brain isn't fast enough to supply English words to my mouth at a reasonable speed (I think something similar would happen on an 8-bit gigabyte-ethernet card).

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }