Author: David Mitchell
Date: 23:58:45 09/25/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 01:25:05, Ray Banks wrote: >On September 25, 2005 at 18:25:47, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>I dunno about most of you but I am tired of post in german. It is not good to do >>such things. Now in the case of the new Fritz9 engine things and comments said >>of it are very interesting to me, but then edward and some others jump off in >>German, very annoying. >>Please stop it >>Wayne > >I like to think this is an international forum, and people can speak in whatever >language they choose. For most of us English is our first language, but for many >it is not, and if they don't feel comfortable posting in what is a foreign >language to them, they are more than welcome to post in their native language. >It is easy enough to just skip those posts if you don't understand German (I >don't) I like to think it's a world-wide, English language, CC forum. It is derived from an English CC newsgroup (rgcc), and how is a moderator to work with langagues which they don't understand? If you say "use Babelfish" or some such, it is immediately clear that you haven't tried using Babelfish! What a laugh.:) Of course, if German is OK, then what about French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Pashtu, Arabic, Japanese, or Chinese? I'm sure we have some members who would like to post up in most of these languages, if we're trying to be multi-lingual on our forum. I'd certainly enjoy a nice long post on the WCCC from Iceland in their native Iclandic language! What a multi-cultural treat - NOT! :) For Windows user's it will be a real treat because our systems are not set up to even display other languages characters, correctly. Nor can we cut and paste them into Babelfish, and get all the characters, right. Just think of the fun we'll have, though! :( Whatever we're doing as a club, we need to be speaking one language to be effectively communicating. Even if the post is casual, it's more than a little rude to write for a group in a language very few understand. Save the German, etc., for private emails. Dave
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