English or Brazilian Portuguese?
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006The blog went online yesterday and I already was asked the same question many times: why writing in English?
I thought for a long time before taking this decision, as this isn't my native language and I'm no Shakespeare. I've decided for English for a simple reason: this blog will be mainly about programming and other nerd things, and I don't like when I find a blog about this subject and I can't read it because it is written in Dutch or Japanese [1].
I'd like to make it very clear that I still think Brazilian Portuguese is the most beatiful language in the world ;), but I think that the blog in English can reach a wider audience. Another thing: considering that this is a blog for nerds, come on: if you can't read any English, you're going to suffer a lot to be a good nerd, aren't you?
It's important to remember that, contrary to many other more radical bloggers, I don't have any problems with comments in Portuguese and, if I decide to comment any more "local" subject, it will be in Portuguese too.
[1] Besides that, or even *because of that*, sometime ago I used to find so many things in German that I decided to learn German. I ended up learning only the most basic stuff, by my own. But the language is still on my "things to learn" list.
P.S.: I'd like to apologize upfront for any violence against the English language, or any new words I invent in this process...
E-mails with corrections will be welcome.
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