On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Johan Jönsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Tech News is intended to tech-capable users, yes, but they are acting as >> relays/ambassads to explain to other people, and they will create >> presentation documents and have a didactiv activity. >> Being able to speak a common language but understandardable one for everyone >> is a must for these news that in fract don't enter in lot of tricky details >> (and that are in fact read by more people than what you think, even if they >> are not developers). Anyway even if you speak English on this list not >> everyone on Meta speak it (otherwise these news would not need to be >> transalted at all !) >> >> And tech developers are not necessarily the best to speak about how to spek >> non technical English that are more related here to the organization itself >> (when we speak about the "Board"). Don't be elitist: these news are intended >> to be read by the world, including those not reading English. For that >> reason we should avoid "jargon" as much as possible (and even many technical >> terms have transaltions in MediaWiki because it is also intended to be used >> by non-English communities, where English is also undesirable and very >> unlikey to be understood correctly: we are in the area of usability of the >> software). >> >> So no, I don't support you too limited POV. > > Hi Philippe, > > I don't really disagree with anything I say,
... you say. Sorry. (In hindsight, I disagree with a lot of things I've said, of course.) //Johan Jönsson -- _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
