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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:03:43PM +0000, Lance Davis
wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> >>- Wrt. language vs regional: can someone
comment how much e.g. pt_BR
> >> differs from pt_PT?
> >
> >A lot.
> >
> >> Is it like US English and UK English, or do
they
> >> differ to such an extend that it would be
difficult to communicate on
> >> one list?
> >
> >As a rule of thumb, a pt_BR speaker would have as
much (or sometimes more)
> >trouble communicating with someone who speaks pt_PT
as with someone that
> >speaks spanish.
> >
> >Sometime even more, since there are words that are
common, but with
> >completely different meanings.
> >
> >> I think it is a relevant "data
point" for this discussion.
> >
> >True.
>
> Sounds like we need different lists for those then -
what about different
> moderators ??
As I mentioned to Ralph on IRC, Brazil is the only country
with a different
portuguese language. So you have pt_BR for Brazil, and pt_PT
for all the
other portuguese speaking countries. So, if we are really
going to have
different lists, I suggest centos-br and centos-pt.
The problem is that I don't know how much traffic, if any,
we are going to
have on -pt on that setup. On the other hand, if we only
have a -pt list,
I think most brazilians will steer away from it.
In a nut shell, I have portuguese 
- --
Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted
(Wyld Stallyns)
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