On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:07:54PM -0400, Scott Zahn wrote:
| > PS: Just one think is unpleasant - localization. I'm czech (so I beg
| > pardon of native-speakers of English) and it's very important for me to be
| > able to write (not only read) czech at console.
| >
| 
| This reminds me of something I was thinking about a while ago.  How do
| non-english speaking people learn to remember unix commands?  Most unix
| commands are abbreviated english words.  So if someone knows no english at
| all, how do they learn unix commands?  Rote memorization?  That seems like
| it would be extra difficult.  Sorry if this post is way off topic, it's
| just something that I've wondered about for a long time, but don't have
| any non-english speaking unix friends to ask.  Could someone on this list
| tell me?

I'm native Dutch but my English is pretty good, so I have no trouble
remembering unix commands. Back in the old days (my Commodore Pet) i
just remembered what each BASIC command did, taught me a bit of
english and a bit of programming.

I think you'll find that most UNIX-people are able to read english
since most manpages are in english. Don't have hard numbers though ;)

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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