On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:13:41PM +0200, seth wrote:
Hi and 'gudn tach'!
On Tue, June 29, 2010 12:37, Marcus Buck wrote:
Andre Koopal hett schreven:
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.
On the other hand you could call someone offensive or arrogant (or at least not-thinking-enough), if he uses his small native language in an international project.
Of course, in most cases none of them is really arrogant or maliciously offensive. If someone replies in Swedish on a German request, one could take it as nothing but a joke and a hint 'try using the common language, please!', which mostly will be English, nowadays.
iow: agf should hold for questioners _and_ repliers. :-)
cheers/prost seth
Indeed, that is just the intend, a friendly reminderr, and almost always working as such.
Regards,
Andre
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