Are we OK with #Chinese people writing Chinese on #GitHub and other platforms?
I mean, not in repos that can only be of interest to Chinese people, I mean in repos of public interest for all, where we usually write in #English.
Also sometimes even if a repo has the README in English, there are issues, pull requests, etc. in Chinese.
Is it only me finding it disrespectful? They may benefit from others who speak English (even those who are not native English speakers but strive) but we are left out when they speak Chinese? 😲
@post
Ever been in China? You'll struggle finding people who can speak some English. I have worked with engineers who would talk like a children, because they barely knew a few English words.
Same for the rest of the world, but in the context of FOSS we all try to write in English, no matter if it's bad.
Only the Chinese have this attitude and it's already problematic, imagine if everyone just start reporting bugs in their own language.
If it was for me, we would use #interlingua that is designed for this, but English is the de facto standard for now.
@post
You likely did not understand what I meant to say: Chinese people don't know English.
Would it be cool if they did know English and were able to easily communicate with other people in the world? Sure. But that's not how it is.
Have you ever been to the rest of the world? It is like that for everyone, the Chinese are not special. Do you think for example that English and Italian are similar because we use the same alphabet? Well, they are totally different languages.
@post
I've been in many countries, China is definitely the one in which English is spoke the least.
In Italy we speak MUCH better English, after all people study it for 13 years before starting university...
I don't know why Chinese are so bad at talking English, but I have the impression that they don't study it at all before starting university.
When I was working in China, none of my colleagues could say one single word in English.
The top engineers of the company were able to say something, but I'll tell you that they would do that worse than an old Italian would.
After all, they don't really have a reason to learn English: everyone there speaks Chinese and there aren't a lot of foreigners around.
I wouldn't say they're paraculo, simply they don't know English and aren't learning it simply to make a GitHub issue...
Btw: using the same alphabet DOES help a lot, when I was learning Hindi it took me a lot of time just to learn the alphabet
Even though I fluently speak Hindi now, I still have problems with some wovels which I wouldn't have if that was the alphabet of my original language.
