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Discussion on: Reality of programmer's English skill in non-English-speaking countries?

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Takuma Ishikawa • Edited

Disclaimer: I'm a Japanese programmer and I like ja.stackoverflow.com (ja.SO) very much.

Let me make a small correction. From a viewpoint of ja.SO's policy, the writing style of questions doesn't matter; the important point is how those questions are useful in the future. Although Japanese people often ask a question in the "feel-sorry" (or polite) style, the ja.SO community does not force people to do so. We can post both an "obsolete"-style question and a non-"obsolete"-style question, unless it's too rude. It's not an important problem for ja.SO.

I'm sad to hear that you don't like such a style. Originally, the purpose of opening ja.SO was to ask a question in Japanese language (ref). Then, it's inevitable that there're many obsolete-style questions, because it's a kind of Japanese culture. Japanese language is, you know, spoken only in Japan in contrast to English, which is used all over the world. So I personally think that Ben's proposal (preparing subcommunity options) is good for diversity in dev.to. In fact, this is what SO did.

I admit that Japanese programmer (including me) should learn English more and more, but I think the ja.SO's problem you pointed out is a bit different from that.

(FYI, there is a continuing discussion on ja.SO's chat (in Japanese).)