Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:42:55 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English only, please Message-ID: <949AA320-463C-494A-B43C-2474BABCC625@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060116022901.GN73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> <20060116022901.GN73071@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Jan 15, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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. I think it would most likely be a better idea for people who speak other languages than English to post to other mailing lists. I don't form my opinion from an elitism point of view, but rather just recognize the fact that their problem or question would be answered more quickly by a community converses in their own native language as opposed to an English speaking community. -Garrett
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