Re: Emacs user manual in Spanish

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Jul 3, 2017, at 7:40, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> It makes sense to produce introductory texts,
> FAQs, and "culture" books in Spanish and every
> other language. But not the technology itself.
> And manuals and reference books are part
> of technology.

:) You speak from a minority language point of view. From where you stand that 
makes sense. There are not enough people who speak Swedish to create a 
technological market of ideas, hence the *need* to focus on English and to 
certainly not waste time on producing stuff in Swedish.

It is silly to pretend it is the same for languages that have populations 
ranging in the hundreds of millions. Especially for linguistic communities 
where the common economic market offers very strong incentives to produce in 
that language.

You also seem to conflate technology (specs etc.) and it's representation in 
native languages (references/manuals). Specs use "code" that mostly looks like 
English, but it is not English. "find-file" of "kill-region" are not English 
words, even if they look like English. They are arbitrary symbols. Learning the 
English language is not a required skill to have access to the meaning of such 
symbols and to be able to use them fluently: my daughter does not speak a word 
of English and is still able to fluently use all the alphabetical commands 
available in Minecraft. It would bring her zero benefit to focus on English 
acquisition before being allowed to play Minecraft. Or rather, it would 
frustrate her so much that she would give up all such technology and focus on 
playing with dolls who happen to speak the language that she wants them to 
speak...

Jean-Christophe