Believe me, I hear you! On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I first read this I didn't think twice about it, because Gerard has > > often gone over the 30 message limit, so nothing new. But after reading > > later comments I see that he was disrespectful? I don't think so. I > checked > > and indeed he didn't go over his limit in January. The only disrespectful > > thing I could find in his recent edits was his remark that he is not a > > collaborator because his cultural heritage assumes "collaborators" are > > "nazis", which is offensive in English. I would like to point out here > that > > the word collaborator really does mean nazi in Dutch. It's one of many > > translation challenges, so there is even a Wikipedia article that spells > it > > all out: > > https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboratie > > It's little things like this that make adding English-language Tech news > to > > the Dutch Village pump a bit controversial btw. > > Thanks for the note, Jane. Everyone should keep cultural differences > in mind--it's a source of strife on this list, to be sure, to say > nothing of my marriage, and I suppose the entire Internet. > > Austin > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
