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Maybe I should have added "Or Denmark. Or Netherlands.", but the idea is the same.

• gus_massa 13y ago
  In Denmark and Netherlands, they use almost the same letters than in English. In Japan, China and Russia, they use other scripts, so the names are more difficult to Google unless you use some kind of transliteration or nickname. For example, there was a very important Russian mathematician Чебышёв, every book transliterates his name in a different way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev
  • jeorgun 13y ago
    This is absolutely true, and undoubtedly a barrier to communication. It's also a complete non-starter as an argument in favor of a Portuguese SO site, so I really have no idea what it's doing in the article.