Once my co-worker was writing code comments in English. But they were merely randomly ordered words, and I could not get what he was trying to mean. So I had him rewrite the comments in Japanese full sentence. Having average Japanese people write all documents in English is impractical IMHO.
That's exactly my point. "Merely randomly ordered words," are very important. I do know the reality of how random those Engrish comments are, however my suggestion is to not delete those word salad. Having at least those words is going to change the game. Imagine those Chinese code comments inside my post, written in English words? It's going to look much much better.
EDIT: I've added a section inside my original post to illustrate this issue.
I agree that learning English improve developers productivity, but I don't like "Everything must be in English"-tone opinion. It reminds me of linguistic imperialism.
The "reality" I mentioned is a matter of cultural literacy inside the programmers' community. What you are trying to present is a matter of diversity. That I don't interfere. Diversity is very important; you should at least try to understand 160 languages if your co-workers speak 160 languages.
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That's exactly my point. "Merely randomly ordered words," are very important. I do know the reality of how random those Engrish comments are, however my suggestion is to not delete those word salad. Having at least those words is going to change the game. Imagine those Chinese code comments inside my post, written in English words? It's going to look much much better.
EDIT: I've added a section inside my original post to illustrate this issue.
The "reality" I mentioned is a matter of cultural literacy inside the programmers' community. What you are trying to present is a matter of diversity. That I don't interfere. Diversity is very important; you should at least try to understand 160 languages if your co-workers speak 160 languages.