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Sometimes I see posts (usualy not here) that are rather illegible because the poster's english is not good enough. If the person is a Czech or Slovak I wish /s?he/ would have posted in Czech/Slovak. I think if one feels his/her english is not quite up to the task he/she should write the post in both languages. Often there is someone speaking the non-english language that can either help or at least translate.

On the other hand, I think that if the "usual" language of a forum is english you should try to write the post in english (as well). To give the ones who do not know your language a chance. Often even bad english is good enough and it's a little uncomfortable not to understand a tiny bit in a post.

Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-- Rick Osborne

Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature

In reply to Re: Re: Natural language of monks. by Jenda
in thread Natural language of monks. by zby

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