Monday, February 28, 2005

English/中文

Have been browsing a lot of blog sites lately. One thing that I noticed was that most of the sites are very organized and they tend to stick with one language.

Yes. What that means is: The sites are either in English or in Chinese, not both.

I've been blogging on the same page using both English and Chinese since early-October 04 when I first started this site. And I didn't see anything wrong with that.
(I know. There isn't a right or wrong here; plus not a lot of people really care)

At first, visitors mainly came from the Americas (-8 time zone). However, I've also noticed that I'm using more and more Chinese in the blog, and more visitors are coming from the Asia (especially HK +8 time zone).

To me, using both English and Chinese on the same page just doesn't look right anymore.

Especially to those who can't read Chinese, it's just a waste of time that they have to scroll through the Chinese mosters (improperly-decoded Chinese words).
*I'm assuming most HK people can read some English.

So, I'm considering restructuring the GREYish MARZ.

If you have any suggestions/recommendations, please let me know =)

[marz] @ 2/28/2005 03:13:00 p.m.

3 Comments:

# at 3/01/2005 08:49:00 a.m.,  marz said... That's true... I should consider opening another blog just for Chinese. Or... modify this one. Thanks a lot =)  

# at 3/02/2005 01:39:00 a.m.,  flo said... 我也曾為這個問題而煩腦.當初不想用中文的原因跟你說的一樣:覺得對不懂中文的人好像有點不公平.不過後來還是決定隨心而行. I'd just write in whichever language seemed more appropriate! However, given my poor Chinese skills, most of the time I found myself blogging in English.

Having said that, now that I no longer maintain my blog, I no longer have this concertn. :)  

# at 3/02/2005 10:26:00 a.m.,  marz said... I'm sure a lot of people will miss your blog! ><  

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