Am Freitag, 28. April 2006 14:04 schrieb Louis Desjardins: > > > >Andreas, thank you for emphasising this once again, that's exactly what > >I've wanted to write. I think your rules should be placed onto: > > > > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > >to avoid this evergreen in the future. > > > >In a multilingual community like this one it's not of the highest > >priority, that everybody understands everything -- if one e-mail is not > >understood, so be it. > > Absolutely. I thought this discussion was over... :)
This discussion will never end, because new users will bring up the issue once in a while. Nothing wrong with it, but it's important not to change the policy described by Andreas. > > BTW, I think nothing of critical importance will go through on this > list because of a language issue whitout any of us being aware of it. > Many of us have a fair knowledge of more than one language. If a > question or a discussion is raised on an important issue, we will > take notice. We can translate it if needed. AFAICT, most of the developers and the majority of regular visitors here speak/write at least two languages. Chances are good nothing gets lost, unless the language is quite "exotic" (e.g. Frisian or Basque). > > I absolutely don't mind when I don't understand a post! (Actually, i > like to play the game and try to identify the significant words that > can help me just understand what the issue is) Especially when I see > answers to it. It means that person was not left over and this is the > most important. It is always possible for someone to ask what's going > on without having to start a larger discussion on which language we > should or shouldn't use. Agreed. It worked, it works, and it will work in the future. > > I don't read all the post even if I could understand them. Some > things are just beyond me and it's ok. It's not just a matter of > understanding. It's a matter of time and also a matter of > concentrating on what is important. Some readers get particularly > sensible when they don't understand a post (and please, my point is > not to start a huge discussion...). But is that so important? It > might be useful to take a few minutes prior to answer and think if > this has that much importance that it is needed to ask the list to > become unilingual. This list is a place where I feel at home, > completely, even if my own language is French (and we work hard to > keep our language well alive where I live). Some of us have off-list > conversation about languages, and vocabulary and expressions... We > can develop our own sensibility to others, other ways of saying > things, other words to express the reality. Etc. And even better, once you try to explain things or resolve issues in a foreign language, you will be able to explain them in your mother tongue. The exercise is really worth the effort. > > When someone asks for an english list or for splitting it, I find it > sad. I think we all make a reasonnable effort to keep the magic of > this list. The way it is at the moment is, to me, magic. > > Merci beaucoup! > Thank you very much! > Danke sh?n! > Grazie mille! > Bolsho? spaciba! > > Louis Tak! Tack! Bedankt! Gracias! Christoph
