Hi and 'gudn tach'! On Tue, June 29, 2010 12:37, Marcus Buck wrote: > Andre Koopal hett schreven: >> The solution we mostly take is to answer in dutch or swedish or >> something :-) >> > Wow, how mature... Hoe durven ze geen Engels te spreken? > > If River Tarnell does not speak German and recommends using English if > people want to get a quick answer from him without one of River's > co-admins being interpreter, that's of course okay. But intentionally > being unhelpful to people who in good faith use their native language > (which in the case of German will be understood on this list) is just > offensive and arrogant.
On the other hand you could call someone offensive or arrogant (or at least not-thinking-enough), if he uses his small native language in an international project. Of course, in most cases none of them is really arrogant or maliciously offensive. If someone replies in Swedish on a German request, one could take it as nothing but a joke and a hint 'try using the common language, please!', which mostly will be English, nowadays. iow: agf should hold for questioners _and_ repliers. :-) cheers/prost seth _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
