[Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

[phoebe ayers]

2011/3/8 Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org>:
> 2011/3/8 Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv at gmail.com>:
>> Ты это серьёзно? Мне кажется, письме на двадцатом Google Translate
>> всем изрядно надоест. К тому же как быть с просторечиями и
>> фразеологизмами, на которых автоматические переводчики постоянно
>> спотыкаются?
>
> It's not perfect, but it's better than saying "Victor, speak English
> or stfu." :-)  You use it to get a basic idea of what was said and
> then respond based on that.  In the few times that we've tried it, it
> hasn't been that much of an issue.

I know not everyone uses Gmail, but for those that do: the labs
"message translation" extension rocks my world.

And yes, please, please write in the language you are most comfortable
in (which is English for me, so it's hard for me to lead by example in
promoting a multilingual list!)

-- phoebe