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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--z/AAsH1r4ZXu3bz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --z/AAsH1r4ZXu3bz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDywTtIubykFB6QiMRAs4XAJ41gdrKhyJ7hEfhM1dmdco9wXtdUwCfdIxM bxPvPUENyG1hL7PYQA4CwMs= =25lx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z/AAsH1r4ZXu3bz7--
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