I'll answer this in private not to add more fuel into this. On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:14 -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > (Top-posting because I'm responding to the thread as whole rather than > to a specific post within the thread...) > > I'm a little confused by the whole discussion on several fronts. > > - First... Why dies this discussion exist on this particular mailing > list? Discussions about forums should be done with the forum admins. > We, on the marketing team, have no direct control over the activities of > the Forum administration and mergings of multiple languages. > > - Second, our "borders" within openSUSE have been language-based, not > geography based. That is to say, for example, English. We do not hold > separate channels of communication for England, Australia, United > States, etc. There is ONE EN for all speakers of a language regardless > of where they live. It could be argued that each of those countries > mentioned use English in a different way, but there's still an > underlying root commonality that we're all able to communicate > regardless. > > Here, I'm uncertain if there is such a distinctive difference in the > Portuguese language that it is so drastically different per country that > it needs separate locality designation. If there is, please enlighten > me. But from what I'm seeing in #opensuse-pt and elsewhere, > Portuguese-speaking people of different regions seem to be able to > communicate effectively with each other. > > So why do we need distinctive forum specifically for the country of > Portugal and others? The more we spread out support information into > smaller pods, the less we're going to achieve. And that hurts us in so > many ways, including even raising our Google indexibility. > > So, in a nutshell, can someone clarify to me as well as to others, why > we want to even begin to consider breaking away from the traditional > model of being language-based rather than geography-based? > > But otherwise, really, this discussion doesn't belong on this mailing > list. > > Thanks, > Bryen M Yunashko > > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:00 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 14:56 -0300, Luiz Fernando Ranghetti wrote: > > > While some people want to make Portuguese one of ONU's official > > > language (by doing the 1990 agreement for example), some people seams > > > to go in the other direction, but this is not the right mailinglist to > > > discuss this. > > > > First, I don't care about politics, unless it's domestic politics. > > Second, that doesn't give you the right to deliberately pass on false > > information. > > > > Second, don't go that way and try to override things that are tightly > > related to our culture. As a sovereign nation we are pretty much capable > > of deciding our future as we've been doing for the last 1000 years. > > Thank you. > > > > Third, the official language of Portugal is 'Portuguese' referred > > nationally as "Português/Portuguese" and internationally as "European > > Portuguese" or "Lusitan Portuguese" or "Portuguese of Portugal". This > > are the expressions approved to refer to it. If you don't like it, file > > a complaint to the organizations that regulate it, which I pointed in > > the previous email, else stop passing on false information, no one > > really benefits from that, and instead of making people more rich > > culturally you are actually leading people to mistake. > > > > > > > > nelson. > > > >
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