On Monday 11 April 2005 16:04, Carol Kankelborg wrote: > Thomas R. Koll wrote: > > Hi Normann, > > > > Though maybe 10% onlist will understand your German, please use > > English instead of German. > > No one has responded to this, so I feel I must. Is this a change in > policy on the list? > > In my few years subscribed to this list I have > seen numerous posts in German and other non-english languages > and have never seen a complaint about them. They are ignored > by those who don't speak the language and answered by those > who do. So I was surprised to see this reply.
No, there is no set policy, though it *is* preferable to send in English. The best is even English *and* another language if you are not a native English speaker and its imperfect or you have difficulty. Also, Franz, the original developer is indeed German and a decent portion of our user base are German speakers. We've had all German threads and i guess we'll have them again in the future. Our team can speak or read the following: Czech English French German Swedish Luxembourgish Polish Slovak Swedish No, I do not want the list to become a tower of babel, but helping folks and getting them sorted is rule # 1 IMO. The same goes for #scribus on IRC. Its mainly English, but French, German, Italian and even Russian can be seen. The international flavor of Scribus is one of the things I as an anglophone really like.. I guess our mindset is inclusive - a Good Thing TM IMO. Peter
