Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 18:48:47 11/07/01
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Hi Christophe, >> There is absolutely no reason to limit the posts here to any particular >> language, English or otherwise. There is nothing in the CCC Charter that >> states that this is an English message board, or that languages other than >> English are not welcome. >>Therefore, your request is not valid, and in somewhat poor taste.... > Il a raison et je ne vois vraiment pas le mauvais goût dans ce qu'il dit. > Quant au fait que l'anglais ne soit pas obligatoire ici, je crois que de fait > ça l'est devenu. Je ne m'en plains d'ailleurs pas, c'est tout simplement la > seule et unique façon de pouvoir communiquer entre nous. > Pas vrai? Zum Glück funktioniert mein Schulfranzösisch noch so gut, daß ich Dich ganz gut verstehe, Christophe, auch ohne Babelfish... bloß antworten tue ich Dir nicht in französisch, dazu brauche ich das Wörterbuch zu oft... WOW, international... :) Okay, I translate myself... (My sentences not yours) To my luck my school-french works good enoug to understand you, Christoph, even without babelfish... but I do not answer you in french because for that I would need the dictionary to often... You completely miss the point. Look at Eduard - he can nearly nothing in english - anyway his games are interesting and we see quite often long threads about them. So will you forbid him to post here ? Fully clear is, that main language IS english, but if someone has problems to get understood or search help or anything else and can only do that in a different language I would be the last one who get angry about it, especially when Eduard is so kind to mark his postings also with (German) - you were not so kind to mark your posting with (French). But I also agree with Sarah's point - if possible one should try to explain in english... I know my english is very bad, but I try - there are often some sort of things which I would like to say in german because I think I know a little bit more words in german and my feeling for the language is much better - it is sometimes not easy to prevent you from saying something offensive which is not thought as offensive, simply because you are not good enough in that language... same vice versa - I might get angry about something that was in reality fully different in sense... In case of Eduard and Slate the somehow german thread did get a little bit longer... but is that such a big problem ? No tolerance in Gouadeloupe about those who does not speak english ? So let it like it is, I think it is working fine. And I promise this was the last time I write german in this club - when you promise that you stop that french... okay ?! :) But be tolerant about Eduard. How many postings are this ? 1% 0.1% 0.01% - is that of any importance ? By the way - I am administrator of the winboard-forum which is also international, not nearly as big as the CCC, but it is also not what I would say small... from time to time we had any language there, spain, italian, german, serbish, hungary... whatever... Noone ever complaints about that - it is of no importance after all... good is that everybody gets help and someone to discuss - that's the reason behind those forums - my opinion. English is the main language because the biggest group can understand that - but it can't be the only language because some people would be out else... keep cool... Greets, Thomas
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