[ruby-core:51486] Re: Helping Japanese-speaking Ruby hackers with English

I'm just thinking out loud here but I think a good start would be some
list with common Japanese <-> English translations along with a small
description about how the words/sentences are constructed. I'd say the
big problem is not just the lack of English/Japanese in itself but the
combination of that and the requirement to know a lot of technical words
that you might not always find in a dictionary.

For example, it's fairly easy to find a proper translation for "Hello,
my name is Yorick" in almost any language be it Japanese, Korean or
Spanish. However, when you want to say "Hey, could you report a bug
about that segfault on the Ruby issue tracker?" things get a bit more
complicated.

A simple wiki page with some of this information might be a good start.

Yorick

p.s. I'd be happy to offer my own language knowledge which consists out
of Dutch, English and limited Korean (I'm still learning it). Sadly I
don't know any Japanese other than "moshi moshi" (oh god why).