On Saturday 22 March 2008 2:01:10 am Craig Latta wrote:
> Hi--
>
>       While I appreciate the effort that non-native English-speaking
> Squeakers put into their translations, I'd love to see messages from
> them in their native languages. This would give me the option of doing
> the translation to English myself. I often feel like something has been
> lost, and I'd love to know what the writer meant in their most familiar
> language, idioms and all.
Craig,

Good intentions but I doubt if it is feasible with the kind of mail agents 
available today. English, warts and all, has evolved over the years into a 
link language for exchanging ideas in an international context, particularly 
in a technical context.

A day may come when mail agents translate on the fly between different 
languages. Imagine waving a magic lens over a piece of text and see it 
translated (slang and all) into the reader's native language! Until then, we 
have to make do with plain ASCII.

Subbu