Andre Koopal hett schreven: 
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:30:04AM +0000, River Tarnell wrote:
  
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James Hare:
    
I am confident that many users already defaulted to asking questions in
English out of the American presumption that everyone speaks English
everywhere.
      
Yes, but we still get a few tickets in German now and then.  Since this
doesn't happen with French or Swedish, it seems likely people are
assuming that all admins are German.

    
Hi River,

I work for an international company where sometimes indeed the germans tend
to mail in german to international lists.

The solution we mostly take is to answer in dutch or swedish or something :-)
Wow, how mature... Hoe durven ze geen Engels te spreken?

If River Tarnell does not speak German and recommends using English if people want to get a quick answer from him without one of River's co-admins being interpreter, that's of course okay. But intentionally being unhelpful to people who in good faith use their native language (which in the case of German will be understood on this list) is just offensive and arrogant.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox