Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 13:10:36 08/23/05
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On August 23, 2005 at 13:48:33, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On August 23, 2005 at 13:14:01, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >Hi Rolf, > >>I'm somewhat disapointed by your strange idea that German could be the language >>in such a forum where the Americans and Anglo people can't speak something else >>than English. > >Does that mean that you regard those people to be less intelligent? > >>So your idea seems unfriendly to me to say the least. > >My idea is to focus on readers. When I experience most interested readers to be >able to read German, why should it be unfriendly then serving the majority? > >Reinhard. This is also strange. Let me make my point please: science is an international field. And its main language is English. Also we in Germany add summaries in English when we publish new articles in German. From that I conclude that even highly intelligent people in computerchess who are coming from English speaking nations are by definition not so forced to study German if their English is the most common language in their World (country AND science). From that I conclude that in this forum about computerchess we all should be trying to speak English. If we can. And you can express yourself in English. Therefore I thought it would be strange if you now tried to enforce German to this forum which is only spoken by say 25% of the members. That is why I beg you not to feel any offense if I asked you to translate your good statement about xfen etc. But let me end with a good argument for your case. Your opponent SMK who just refused to find a compromise with you is also a German and perhaps it shows something to the international CC community how stubborn also Germans could be and that you are the German who was trying to find compromises. In other words you behave like a smart American scientist. While Stefan must face the criticism that he's a bit limited in his decisions. And the reason seems to be that he thinks that he can behave this way because he's World Champion. Which is a very premature view in my eyes. Rolf
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