Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 12:30:27 03/10/05
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On March 10, 2005 at 14:44:29, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On March 10, 2005 at 14:10:22, Joseph Tadeusz wrote: > >>On March 10, 2005 at 13:33:10, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >> >>>On March 10, 2005 at 06:17:15, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >>> >[snip] > >>>>Gruß, Reinhard. >>>> >>>>P.S.: Deutsch ist die in den rein europäischen Ländern am meisten gesprochene >>>>Muttersprache. Dies stellt für mich eher eine mehrheitsfähige Lösung dar, als >>>>der (von der Mehrheit offenbar tolerierte) Gebrauch kryptischer Kürzel und >>>>Vokabeln, die nur den Zweck haben können, Nicht-Angelsachsen zu vergraulen. >>> >>>Hi Reinhard: >>>I can normally follow threads in German with Babel Fish, but for your P.S. it >>>gives me ... >>> >>>"Is German in the purely European countries to most spoken native language. This >>>represents for me rather a majorityable solution to vergraulen as (of the >>>majority would obviously tolerate) the use of kryptischer contractions and >>>Vokabeln, which can have only the purpose, non--fishing rod Saxonia." >>> >>>... which I can make no sense of. Would you or another German speaking member >>>be kind enough to translate? >>> >>>Thanks >>>Dan H. >> >>He prefers German to English getto slang as used recently in CTF. > >Thanks, Joseph. >To Reinhard: >Now that I know the meaning, I'll reply. > >First, I am not bothered at all by posts in German or any other language. I've >stated this several times in the past, and, in fact, in the last few days: > >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?415801 > >However, I am bothered by people who go to CTF then post on CCC about what a >foul place it is. I simply don't understand it. To me, the problem has such a >simple and obvious solution. Hello Dan, when I try to post using English I often hear that I am not understood. I do not know whether it is because I try to express my ideas in own words instead of reproducing terms and arguments from well known published programs. Be it as it is, it is a lot of effort to communicate in a not native language on non trivial topics. But a lot of people do not see this. For them English seems to be the only way to communicate, any other is half on the way to apes or Neander- tal representants. There have been times - not long ago - even mentioning other chess variants as Chess960 or 10x8 Capablanca lead immediately to flaming against such postings. Moderators seemed to be highly engaged - it must have been a high priority task. But talking in slang or unusual words or abbreviations always seems to be tole- rated, as long as English native speakers would not be excluded to understand. It would be fair if everybody would post in his own language. That could more- over avoid a lot of misunderstandings when not finding best translations for the intended messages. Of course that idea is not that realistic. But I want to document that I am highly demotivated to use intolerant and non cooperative channels using English language that intolerant. So I made some postings and replies in German. Regards, Reinhard.
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