6 words in and there were so many errors that I couldn't continue to read. What ...

functional-tree · on Oct 25, 2009

He's from Belgium, though I don't know where he learned English.

wlievens · on Oct 25, 2009

Probably at school, starting at the age of 11 something. Like everyone else at his age in Flanders.

ubernostrum · on Oct 25, 2009

Stupid Flanders.

tuukkah · on Oct 25, 2009

Um, what's wrong with Flanders now? Learning a language is not trivial, and even less so if not via immersion as a child.

talboito · on Oct 25, 2009

That was a Simpsons joke.

http://www.snpp.com/guides/flanders.file.html

guitarjunkie · on Oct 25, 2009

I'm laughing so hard right now.

guitarjunkie · on Oct 26, 2009

Really? I mean really? No love for a laugh at a simpsons joke. wow.

Steve0 · on Oct 25, 2009

How many languages do you know?

jrockway · on Oct 25, 2009

More than one, but I avoid blogging in them to avoid "you're bad at language $foo". Knowing more than one language doesn't mean that your errors aren't annoying.

acangiano · on Oct 25, 2009

English is a language, a tool for communication. What he wrote is perfectly understandable by any reasonably intelligent individual who is fluent in English. I'm sorry if his English proficiency is not up to your standards, but I assure you that it is far better than your Flemish, or French, or probably any other language than English, which happens to be the one you learned as a child.

jrockway · on Oct 25, 2009

So I guess it's a pattern in the PHP community to blog in languages you don't know. Almost like how they write code...