First Susan_Mason writes slanerous lies about me, then Stevetigo does the same, and now Chris Mahaon joins the RK-bashing.
Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com writes :
A slanderous innuendo? Where? I missed it? Dang...
I posted the quote in my letter, where Stevertigo explicitly accused me of promoting segregation against Chinese languages. (This is a really sick thing for someone to claim, by the way.) I am sorry that you found his wording too confusing to understand. Allow me to explain:
Susan Mason is accusing me of being racist against Chinese people, while Stevertigo slightly rephrases this, and accuses me of "Segregation" Chinese letters, thereby implying that I am bigoted against Chinese people and/or culture. Do you get it now?
Chris Mahan then writes:
The fact that he signs his posts with a hard-to-duplicate sig, one hat most likely happens to be the exact' legal ntition of his birth name, lead me to believe that in fact is his intent that his post not be confused for any one else's. Whodathunk?
That's really stupid, man. You already have been told that this system literally DOES NOT WORK on many computers. Others on this list have already told you that ENGLISH SPEAKERS do not differentiate well between multiple Kanji signatures, and that Stevertigo is attempting to get multple people to start using Kanji. And we are working specifically on an encyclopedia for English speakers, remember? What do you find so confusing about this?
Kanji being the primary element of the written language of the second largest world economy, of a technologically advanced and pionering nation where the internet is concerned, and the official writ of 140 million people, I dare say that blaming people for using it is narror-sighted at best.
Thar's insane. By that argument, we should write the entire English Wikipedia in Chinese! Do you really not understand that this is the ENGLISH Wikipedia, and that people are also working on other Wikipedias in other langauges? What about this concept do you find to hard to understand?
Also, I am disturbed by the way that subtly imply that Susan Mason and Stevertigo are correct; you imply that I a really am a bigot, simply because I want to read an English-language encyclopedia in English leters. I take great offense at what you write here.
On a more serious note, Robert, how would you feel if the Internet had been createdn by the Soviets, and the ligua franca was Russian, and the script was cyrillic, would you not want to sign your own name the way your parents meant for you to rather than with less-than perfect cyrillic approximations?
I, and most of us here, are AGAINST English Wikipeida being made unreadable by introducing Chinese, Japansese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Farwi and a host of other characters that most English speakers would find confusing.
I am sorry to see that Chris Mahan, Stevertigo, and Susan Mason are working so hard to make Wikipedia unreadable. I am sorry to see hat some people lie about me beliefs, and think it is acceptable to make accusations of racism towards Wikipedia contributors for the "crime" of saying that this is the English Wikipedia.
In disgust at the way I am being treated,
RK
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