I lived in Japan for some time, so I know a little bit. All the celebrated info technologies and user experience - superior to those that make up ipods, iphones, macbook airs etc came out in Japan a few years before adoption by Apple and the rest. Inferior English knowledge has been a major factor in preventing them from becoming world-beating brands. So this is a double-edged sword.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:24 PM, joachim Gwoke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:32:39 +0800 > > From: Mark Tinka <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [LUG] Learning and mastering > > programming/development the > > Open Source way... > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 05:39:12 PM Robert Muwanga > > wrote: > > > > The English barrier problem may soon not be a problem > > > anymore with regards to China at least > > > http://abcnews.go.com/WN/China/china-pushes-english-langu > > > age/story?id=12154435 > > > In my experience, English is several parts of Asia is a real > > > problem when compared to Africa. > > > Asia still have a very long way to go re: English. However, > > > the majority of them are just happy the way they are because > > > all their infrastructure, cars, control units, laptops, > > books, logistics, radio programming, Tv programming, e.t.c., > > > are very well represented in their native languages, > > minimizing the importance for English from that > > perspective. > > > As it were, while English is necessary for international > > trading, it is less so for developing internally (Japan and > > > Taiwan are excellent cases), as I have seen around Asia. > > > > Mark. > > > > I don't know much about the far East but it seems nature was on their side. > Japan is virtually a one-language society and then they have those > characters they write with, kanji is it? I am told they can say more in a > twitter statement than most people in English would without reaching that > character limit. Somehow even those 4 language technical manuals back then > had less pages for the Japanese section. There must be advantages there. > > regards > Joachim > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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