On Friday 06 February 2004 11:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > another point is that we post in english because we can (even > if we murder the language :D ).
i post in english because i can't post intelligibly in tagalog or visayan. if i try to write anything computer related in visayan or tagalog, eventually i end up with so many english loan words that the whole thing looks like a mess. after all, i can't say "ilaga" or "daga" for mouse. and i don't know enough tagalog to translate that into something like "pointing device" that would look or "feel" right. maybe there are words for those concepts somewhere. but until they pass into the common vocabulary (or further, since i'm visayan and don't talk to any tagalogs in tagalog, so it would actually have to jump over from tagalog to visayan before i could learn the new words :), i'll keep posting in english. oh, and i'm posting this to plug-misc also. i hope people will continue this thread there. > if somebody thinks they can better articulate themselves using > filipino then they should do so. unfortunately, the filipino language > has a > very limited vocabulary for technical terms and even if > even those might be too cumbersome to use. i was going to comment here. but it was too inflammatory, very politically incorrect, insensitive, elitist. stripped it out na lang in the interest of firefighting :). tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" All models are false, but some models are useful. -- George Box -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
