Hi all > Actually, Gerald, the polite thing to do if you are posting just for one > community, is to say so, in ENGLISH at the beginning, so that the others > who don't understand what you wrote aren't upset at being "ignored" by > the foreign language post... Yes you're right about writing an introduction in english mention this. But my Post was a short copy/paste job just to forward the information. I don't wan't to spent a lot of time just to translate the whole thing. AND the most important thing in switzerland is, that the french-part speaks german and the german part speaks french. So what's the problem? We all understand us vice versa. Just a few people here don't understand GERMAN. And for those should i write in a foreign language where i don't feel as comfort as writing in native language?
The only thing you get by forcing people in writing in a specific language is dead silence. They rather decide to write nothing than spending unnecessary time in writing/translating to the foreign language. And the most important thing: you're going to segregate swiss-german people not speaking/writing english! > On the other hand, there's a set of rules that govern this list, and if > I remember well, it does specify ENGLISH as the normal posting > language... so being part of a community implies adhering to the rules. Rules made by whom? Karim? Aren't we here a community? Aren't we here in switzerland with direct democracy? I can't remember a voting on this. One for sure - if you're further blame on people like me writing in german you'll loose them. Small poor CHOSUG-Community shrink like a glacier. But doesn't matter - there is global warming. A welcome punching bag these times. Go on and gather the fruits you were planting. G?rald
