Re:Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal
by morphir on Saturday October 24, 2009 @09:13PM
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Drupals founder, Dries Buytaert got some reflections on this too. http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal
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6 words in and there were so many errors that I couldn't continue to read. What is it with the PHP community and the inability to use English correctly?
He's from Belgium, though I don't know where he learned English.
Probably at school, starting at the age of 11 something. Like everyone else at his age in Flanders.
Re:Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal
by ubernostrum on Sunday October 25, 2009 @10:43AM
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Stupid Flanders.
Um, what's wrong with Flanders now? Learning a language is not trivial, and even less so if not via immersion as a child.
That was a Simpsons joke.
Re:Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal
by guitarjunkie on Sunday October 25, 2009 @05:39PM
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I'm laughing so hard right now.
Re:Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal
by guitarjunkie on Monday October 26, 2009 @05:17PM
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Really? I mean really? No love for a laugh at a simpsons joke. wow.
How many languages do you know?
More than one, but I avoid blogging in them to avoid "you're bad at language $foo". Knowing more than one language doesn't mean that your errors aren't annoying.
English is a language, a tool for communication. What he wrote is perfectly understandable by any reasonably intelligent individual who is fluent in English. I'm sorry if his English proficiency is not up to your standards, but I assure you that it is far better than your Flemish, or French, or probably any other language than English, which happens to be the one you learned as a child.