[Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Wed Sep 6 17:15:07 UTC 2006


Andy Rabagliati wrote:

>But you can brutalise English and still be understood, which I gather is
>not the case for Chinese.
>  
>
I think this is partly a self-fulfilling prophecy: semi-fluent or even 
broken English can be understood because people are used to reading or 
hearing it, since it's a common second or third or fourth language.  
Compare to, say, modern Greek, where people are astounded to even hear 
it language spoken with a foreign accent---generally you either speak it 
natively or not at all, so people aren't used to making sense of 
semi-fluent speech/writing.

-Mark




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