Iguleder wrote:Xrter (on IRC, on the forums he's Saturn) had a brilliant initiative to write a new Puppy wiki, and I'm trying to arrange things for this.
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All my articles will be written in simple English, with small, JPG screenshots for almost each 1-2 paragraphs. My list of articles is not final, I may add or remove articles from it.
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I think we should write articles in Abiword or OpenOffice and save them as ODT, so everyone can view and edit them, is that alright? When you're done writing an article, post it here, we'll polish it together. When Xrter is done setting up the wiki we'll move it there.
Good luck with this thing
to write in simple English very good!
but what is simple English?
for a German person it should be somewhat like BASIC English, the only one well normed simple English.
For French people or probably for speakers from other latin languages makes this form of English a special form of difficulty:
Latin language speakers can not deal with compound verbs as very frequent in English especially in real BASIC English, and German, they prefer a new verb for each situation (French speakers of France use about 5.500 verbs and French speakers of Canada about 800 more verbs as in France!).
It would certainly be an interesting stand alone project to define a kind of 'Computer world high standardized simple English' because it would really make multi language documentation more or less superfluous!
(more if we reach the goal, less if we can not find a really simple proposal ...)
It could be proposed as a reduced dictionary for Seamonkey, the most standard Puppy browser, and check if the used word are contained in it!
PS: I would also find a Puppy version using more little icons (special characters fond! somewhat like Chinese signs) in the sub menus (perhaps in the more important standard applications as Abi instead texts) more international instead of an adduced multi language system! one unique character fond would do it for all linux's of the world! no more translation! highly standardized environment for all people if ONE staff would solve on time this problem!