[ruby-core:51492] Re: Helping Japanese-speaking Ruby hackers with English

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Magnus Holm <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> Dear ruby-core,
>
> Many of the main contributors to Ruby are Japanese, and I truly
> appreciate the great work you're doing for Ruby! Many like to complain
> about MRI, but few actually does something about it. However, this
> also causes some communication problems. To quote ko1 on IRC:
> "[English is a] big problem for me :("
>
> I feel like we can do better, and I want to help out:
>
>
> If any Japanese-speaking Ruby hackers need help to understand some
> English sentences, I'm going to be available:
>
>   IRC: #ruby-core @ irc.freenode.net I'm usually there UTC 09:005:00
>
>   Email: [e-mail] Use "[ruby]" as subject
>
> I *don't* know any Japanese (other than ichi = 1, thanks to ko1), so
> any questions have to be in English.
>
>
> What do you think? Would this help? If not, are there other things we
> can do to help?

Yes, this definitely highly welcome thing. Especially irc is great. In
my experience,
to interpret e-mail is not so hard but interpret irc, chat, tweet log
is much hard because
they often have some slang and/or country local expression.

Example, I didn't know what mean "Catch-22" until recent even though
it is famous common expression in several countries.