>>I see there is a VFP - Portuguese Forum. Is anything similar planned for Spanish? Am I wrong in supposing that there are more Spanish-speaking than Portuguese-speaking members in the UT?
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>>Hilmar.
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>Hilmar,
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>Sounds like your volunteering to be the lead in this... :-)
I might, depending on the amount of work involved.
>BTW, for someone like myself who speaks Portuguese not at all and Spanish only enough to find a bar or bathroom, I wonder if there is a way to automatically translate the posts to English. I would like to have access to everything regardless of the language used.
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>Or, automatically translate the English to other languages and thereby eliminating the need for mirror forums.
I haven't yet seen an automatic translator that does a decent job, and I think it is about time for the world to listen to Ludwig Zamenhof (alias Esperanto - "one who hopes") and others. See also the following editorial:
http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1500%2526a%253D21701,00.asp
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
