It's okay that some people disagree with this moderation action (others
agree, even if they do not say so on-list). This list is not moderated by
whole-list-consensus.
I have provided the reason for moderation, without going into details. To
do so would be to invite drama, which moderation exists to reduce. The
reason is informed by more than one incident, and not necessarily focused
on cultural differences, as some assumed.
Gerard will be unmoderated on March 1st. As always, he is (and other
moderated users are) welcome to submit posts to the list before then, and
if the posts are respectful and on-topic, they would be let through.
A.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:50 AM Rogol Domedonfors <domedonfors(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
There are words in other languages that have a rude,
upleasant,
disrespectful or pejorative meaning in British English. For an amusing
list of examples, see the Oxford Dictionary blog at
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2016/02/words-that-sound-rude/
I presume that I'm entitled to be complain when they are used in email list
exchanges, even when those exchanges are being conducted primarily in those
other languages?
Returning now to the subject of the thread, I have no problem with Gerard's
posts, even if I have not always found them easy to understand, and see no
special reason to restrict his access to this list.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Same in French...
Le 13/02/2017 à 12:35, John Erling Blad a écrit :
> It is common to refer to those that cooperated with the Nazis during
WWII
as
"kollaboratører" (kollaborators) in Norwegian too.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollaborat%C3%B8r
Translating between languages are fun! =)
John
13. feb. 2017 09.08 skrev "Jane Darnell" <jane023(a)gmail.com>om>:
… 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
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