Re: pgsql in Portugal - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

hi Elein

in fact, portuguese spoken in portugal is similar to brazilian
portuguese. But it's more different than what you think.
Take this single example: portuguese users use the word "monitor"  or
"ecrã"  to name the crt,tft,etc. Portuguese Brazilian  "Tela" is
commonly used to refer a monitor in Brazil. "Tela", in Portugal,  is
the place were the painter (an artist) paints. Intuition leads you, a
professional, and you find out they are talking about a monitor. New
users won't get there so easy.
Obviously we (portuguese and brazilian) understand each other. On a
social dialog there are minor differences, but technical stuff is a bit
different.
Another point of view about documentation: the more we have the better,
just like in software ! I'm not implying redundancy with that, but
complementarity.

alf

On Quinta, Set 25, 2003, at 19:08 Europe/Lisbon, elein wrote:

> Juliano Da Silva, who translates General Bits into
> Portuguese for me, says that the difference between
> Iberian Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese is similar
> to the difference between American English and
> British English.
>
> Same roots, same grammar, but sometimes different
> words or expressions for the same things, like
> boot vs. trunk, nappy vs. diaper, etc.
>
> Some actual differences are:
>
> English = Brazilian Portuguese  = Iberian Portuguese
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Monitor = Monitor               = Ecrã
> File    = Arquivo               = Ficheiro
>
> elein@varlena.com
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:31:30AM -0700, elein wrote:
>> I do believe written brazillian portugues and
>> iberian portugues are compatible.  This is
>> from having General Bits translated into portugues.
>>
>> Can we get some actual portugues speakers to
>> weigh in on this?  I should have more information
>> shortly.
>>
>> elein
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:59:17AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>>>> We have a documentation mailing list, and I think we have some
>>>>> Portugese
>>>>> support material.  I think it is listed on the web site.
>>> <snip>
>>>> please jump in.  After that I usually suggest helping translate
>>>> pgAdmin
>>>> and phpPgAdmin, though I think they both might already have
>>>> Portuguese
>>>> covered.
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Brazillian Portuguese and Iberian Portuguese are not the same --
>>> probably as
>>> different as French and Creole.   We would need to start with
>>> translating all
>>> sorts of things into Iberian Portuguese; we haven't had the
>>> involvemment of
>>> people from Portugal before.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Josh Berkus
>>> Aglio Database Solutions
>>> San Francisco
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