Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:11:14 05/12/98
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On May 12, 1998 at 16:38:05, Don Dailey wrote: >On May 12, 1998 at 11:02:04, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>Do you suppose that it is possible that there are chessplayers out there >>who do not read or write English and cannot afford to hire a >>translator??? I suspect that the vast majority of excellent >>chessplayers have no access at all to the English language. In the >>former Soviet Union alone, there must be hundreds of thousands of strong >>chessplayers who know nothing about the english language. In Latin >>America, only a small percentage of the populace can communicate in >>English, but I have played many games of chess against them on ICC. The >>notion that having language channels would create a "Babel" IS babel >>[ie: utter nonsense.] People who can read english WILL participate in >>the english-language forum. No one will would be lost from the >>english-language forum by providing other forums in other languages. > >I agree. But we're not talking here about providing other forums (which >is a great idea.) The complaint is having posts in several different >languages on THIS forum. I think most of us want to be able to read >ALL the posts and communicate freely with each other. > >- Don Don, let me insist. Nobody of the spanish talking has made an issue about this, except you and a couple of english speaking people. We, non speaking people, abide all the time to the untold rule of using english. That's the case 99,9% of the time, Then, why so much hoopla because one post or two? Fernando
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