Author: Ulf Flörsheimer
Date: 21:57:57 11/07/01
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On November 07, 2001 at 23:07:53, Chessfun wrote: >On November 07, 2001 at 21:53:17, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >>Hi Sarah, >> >>>>I tend to agree with you, but I would not ask people to stop posting in >>>>non-english languages. >>>>I would suggest them to add a translation in english, even a short one, so we >>>>can at least understand what's going on. That's not an obligation, but that >>>>would be really nice for the majority of readers. >>>>If a majority of people disagree with me, then I'll just start writing all my >>>>posts in french. ;) >> >>>Actually it makes perfect sense to me, but I still don't understand >>>when they can read and write English why they don't post in English.? >> >>I agree with you, that those who can speak english should try to do so, at least >>with Christophs idea to add at least a short translation... But there are people >>who can't should they be out... > > >No. They should post in their native language. > > >>And believe me, well, I try to speak english here, but my english is that worse >>that it is really hard work for me to do so... > > >Well, your doing a pretty good job. > > >>But maybe another one: You know the german forum of the CSS - from time to time >>we have there VERY much english postings - noone ever claimed on that... and >>they were right, why should we claim - it's an international hobby - everybody >>try's to help those guys, collects the last rests of his school english and try >>to explain... Nothing wrong with me... So why not allow a little bit >>multicultural, multilanguage here ? >> >>Greets, Thomas > > >As I've written I have no problem with any language being posted. >But seems to me as a clear majority here read and write English that if >a poster is capable of doing that then he/she should. > >I myself have posted at CSS, if I could have written in German I would have >done so, although it seems a much larger percentage of the German posters >read and write English than vise versa. > >Sarah. I think for many native english speakers who haven't learned any foreign languages it isn't easy to understand that it makes a big difference between understanding a text (or at least getting an idea of what's going on) an writing only a few words in a language, where you pemanent aren't able to fetch the right phrase out of your mind. So please don't judge too harshly, if I plötzlich nicht mehr weiter weiß und in meiner Not nur noch in deutsch weiter machen kann ... (suddenly find no more english words and only can go on in my native language ...) :-))) For the above words I needed a dictionary three times, but to understand the whole thread I didn't need it once. That's the point. Ulf
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