04-10-2024, 03:05 PM | #1 |
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Linux and English
I learned about Linux when I was living in the North.
I got very curious very quickly. But it wouldn't have been so good if I didn't speak English. It's my second language since I was 30. I had some English in high school, but very basic. How many of you have a different first language? Did you learn English from childhood? Was that normal in your country? In my country not many people are interested in learning English. There's a lot of prejudice. Linux in Spanish is not so good. I had some distros in Spanish and it's a mess. A lot of the stuff remains in English, not a very smooth experience. |
04-10-2024, 03:15 PM | #2 |
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One of the main reasons I switched my computer to English and started to learn it seriously was because Googling error messages (for Linux & general programming) in French wasn't as effective. If the whole world uses English as the defacto international language, I'd better jump in.
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04-10-2024, 04:24 PM | #4 |
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Swedish schools have English per default and also we watch Hollywood movies so we won't forget English
My spelling will always be questionable but there are helpers for that also so you can tolerate me little easier For computers and OS-language i hardly understand Swedish
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I appreciate all you guys who take the time to learn how to speak and understand English as an alternate language because it also facilitates communication with stoopid 'Mercuns like me, no matter what your original motive might have been.
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04-11-2024, 12:17 AM | #6 |
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i agree, i switched to English on all of my devices.
i simply cannot find anything, if interface is on my native language, lol especially in Windows, where all the services and components have such verbose, "too official" corporate terminology my native - Ukrainian, secondary - russian (which i am trying to forget now) beside this, i also write and listen music predominantly on English, not long ago started watching movies on English too, because i work in IT company and all of this really helps me to speak with our English-speaking clients and colleagues from other countries. so i want to say big thanks to the music that i listened a lot, and to the video gaming consoles, like Nintendo (8-bit), Sega Mega Drive and Play Station 1 for teaching me English, when i was a kid
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04-11-2024, 02:57 AM | #7 |
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My native language is Dutch.
We learned English from 12 years in school, but I was quick with it as I already learned English by watching television and playing Zelda and other games on game boy. I was also into music pretty young to 'hear' the language, but I didn't follow the lyrics, I'm more into instruments. I never had to learn much for English exams at school... However, French was our official second language at school, and I hated that language, was really hard for me. I now speak that language more fluently since I have to use it at work too, or with other people in Brussels. I'm glad I can sort things out in French too now. Language really is power. (I did one year evening class Finnish, and sometimes chat with people in Portuguese, using Google Translate, really love it) When I started to use the internet, in English, it seemed everything was English... it seemed logical and natural to me. Until I visited one of my bilingual friends, he was surfing to French websites... I was in shock, websites, in French? On the internet?? WHY !! |
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One "problem" now is that AI translation got really good, so people are lazier.
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It they insist of cheating then i sure hope it is not a Pilot License they are trying to get lol Cockos Forum have a built-in spell checker
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I wonder what would be faster (for me) ..
To learn old school samurai Japanese or how to code a DAW myself, both are language's and both seems almost impossible but i know for a fact it is not - impossible
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04-14-2024, 10:06 AM | #14 |
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The coders are our Samurais so we can do better music.
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04-15-2024, 01:20 AM | #15 |
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And the coders might write loveletters for the technical soldering nerds because they have something to code ON and FOR in the first place
And i recall speaking with MPL many many years ago and both his English and Coding was very "young" not so anymore, he even spells better than ME now .. hehe
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I believe a cat can walk/fall over midi-gear while recording and someone's else cat has done that already somewhere.. producing the same notes of happy accident, cat you believe it'h?
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