Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 12:53:00 03/17/99
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On March 17, 1999 at 09:43:11, KarinsDad wrote: >On March 16, 1999 at 13:03:33, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hey boys: >>Sure I understand the need to talk in a common language, of course. An english >>is that common language today, like it or not. But even then if you post once in >>20 times a post in spanish about trivia to share with other spanish speakers >>boys that fact does not violates the principle of common language. I can ensure >>you nobody in the spanish side has ever used our pretty, sharp, unimitable >>language to confound moderators or to blame nopbody. Just silly jokes that only >>can be expresed in spanish. That's the reason translations are not possible. >[snip] > >Come on Fernando. Who's leg are you pulling now? > >Of course there are phrases which do not translate well, but you cannot use that >as a rationale for not using the common language. By the way, your joke >translated quite well, so if you would have put it into Spanish, I would not >have been able to read it. I also would not have known it was a joke, so I would >not have taken the time out to attempt to translate it. > >This is like using code words or obscure acronyms IMVHO. The difference being >that if you do not understand an acronym, you can ask and people will usually >respond. They may not for a five paragraph Spanish posting and the alternative >is that you have to get it translated (one way or another) yourself. > >So, in order to better understand and communicate with each other, it seems >reasonable that minimally, the noncommon language posts should be translated by >the author if requested and a normal mode of operation is that the translation >is put in automatically by the author. > >Just another opinion!! > >This seems like it may be a fair (forum related, not computer chess related) >survey question. > >KarinsDad :) Hi KarinsDad, I can tell you that anything that has been posted in Spanish in this forum is indeed very interesting, and well worth translating. I think future posts in Spanish will keep the same high standard. Anyway yours will make a good poll question. José.
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