On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:50:29PM -0500, Jack Timmons wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Chad Emrys <ad...@codeangel.org> wrote:
> > I'm not arguing about learning another culture. The argument is that an
> > error message that should be straight forward, isn't.
> 
> You misunderstand my point.
> 
> It isn't straightforward for -you- because that isn't your native
> language. Thus the cultural point. But if switched to
> "T_DOUBLE_COLON", then others who don't know English could then argue
> it isn't straight forward.
> 
> It's an entirely pedantic point to argue, I agree, but thus far you
> entire complain was because it isn't in English, and you want it
> changed so you "don't have to hear about it constantly". The fact is,
> it says "double colon" in a different language, so aside from
> translation there's nothing wrong with it at all.
> 
> Magic would be internationalizing the error messages, but then there
> will be someone whose language doesn't have a version.

My native language isn't English and isn't Hebrew. I'm being fucked twice!

A lot of people (including me) don't know Hebrew nor care about it. The reason
for keeping this error message seems to be to teach people a lesson about how
difficult it is for some people to learn a new natural language.

It's obvouisly your right to do so. But what you'r saying here is just
nonsense.

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