Posting in Non-English (Was: Slovene language)

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 08:09, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> >> Once upon a time at band camp Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:20 am, Tadej Janež wrote:
> >>> Pozdravljen, David!
> >
> >> Dont want to sound rude but this is an english list and it would be 
> >> appreciated by all if you use english when posting to the list in future
> >
> >If nobody minded when a few people carried an entire conversation in
> >Spanish here (or was it another Fedora list?), why is Slovene a
> >problem?
> 
> <personal opinion>
> It is common courtesy and convention to discuss matters in the 
> defacto language of any given mailing list, or IRC channel, etc.  
> It may not be stated explicitly anywhere, but it's just 
> understood good common courtesy.
> 

<snip...>

<semi-sarcastic but serious>
As someone who is multi-lingual (I know that may seem odd for an
American to some, but deal with it), I do agree it is common courtesy as
well to use the de-facto language of a list. That applies even to
translation issues.
</semi-sarcastic but serious>

Besides, posting in another language limits you - how can you be so
certain that someone who doesn't speak that other language can't help
you anyway? You just never know.

I think this possibly a hot button to some because people sometimes use
other languages to communicate inappropriate things. For example, it's
not evident to people whose native languages I speak that I do
understand. This has led to a few embarrassing situations when people
said things in my presence that, frankly, they had no business saying...

Cheers,

Chris

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