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Date:      Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:59:01 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org>, vocativus <vocativus@interia.pl>, Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: English only, please
Message-ID:  <20060116022901.GN73071@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <43CAFAC9.8080401@daleco.biz>
References:  <1965019375.20060111213647@interia.pl> <43C94AAA.9070009@orchid.homeunix.org> <20060115222845.GV73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200601151649.31803.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> <20060115230234.GX73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> <43CAFAC9.8080401@daleco.biz>

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On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 19:45:45 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote:
>>>
>>> Where exactly does it say that this is an "english only" list?
>>
>> I suppose you have a point.  It's implicit; it should be spelt out.
>> At http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html you have a
>> choice of "Mailing Lists" or "Non-English Mailing Lists".  -questions
>> is under the former link; the Polish mailing lists are under the
>> latter.  At
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/
>> there's a reference to an inability to speak English.  But we should
>> really do something about writing a charter that makes it clear.
>> Anybody feel like having a go?
>
> A "virtual friend" of mine (Kiwi, but don't really know his name)
> has written this for a programming forum I frequent:
>
> " To those people for whom English is a foreign language, I can
> only offer this: English is - for better or worse - the /de facto/
> /lingua Terra/.

Hmm.  I don't want to justify the choice of language, just state it.
It's an interesting document, but I don't think it's what we want.

Greg
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