Believe me, I hear you!
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
When I first read this I didn't think twice about it, because Gerard has often gone over the 30 message limit, so nothing new. But after reading later comments I see that he was disrespectful? I don't think so. I
checked
and indeed he didn't go over his limit in January. The only disrespectful thing I could find in his recent edits was his remark that he is not a collaborator because his cultural heritage assumes "collaborators" are "nazis", which is offensive in English. I would like to point out here
that
the word collaborator really does mean nazi in Dutch. It's one of many translation challenges, so there is even a Wikipedia article that spells
it
all out: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboratie It's little things like this that make adding English-language Tech news
to
the Dutch Village pump a bit controversial btw.
Thanks for the note, Jane. Everyone should keep cultural differences in mind--it's a source of strife on this list, to be sure, to say nothing of my marriage, and I suppose the entire Internet.
Austin
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