From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs user manual in Spanish Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:40:29 +0200 Message-ID: <86o9t2wjhe.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20170702082424.GA3364@workstation> <86h8yuy7v1.fsf@zoho.com> <5ac97eb4-d897-4c35-b095-e76250398400@default> <8637aexz6l.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499035547 6314 195.159.176.226 (2 Jul 2017 22:45:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 22:45:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 00:45:43 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dRncd-0001Ec-6n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:45:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRncf-0000Uz-7v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRncD-0000Ut-MB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRncA-0001yf-JV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35008 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRncA-0001yD-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dRnc0-000852-HC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:pg9+OT44Ap19Pxa7vOHJYEk0fiA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113641 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > People who understand English can enable > people who don't. Once there are enough > people who have access to ressource in their > native language, there begins to be > a production in the native language. And then > people don't need the original language > anymore. That's how it works. And that's > a good thing. Programming should be done and documented in the old Anglo-American. This will benefit everyone, native anglophones and everyone else. Not just in the long run, but *now*. English *is* the "native language" of computers and computing. Deal with it. > It is only where there are not enough natives > in a given language that there is a tendency > to stick to the foreign language. It does not > seem to be the case for Spanish. > Plus technologies that have good ressources > in the native language tend to be adopted > first, for obvious reasons. So if we want > Emacs and Lisp to be more popular with > Spanish users it makes sense to produce the > most Spanish documentation possible. It makes sense to produce introductory texts, FAQs, and "culture" books in Spanish and every other language. But not the technology itself. And manuals and reference books are part of technology. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573