Jimmy Wales wrote:
Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
And I don't see anything encouraging in this
discussion.
What do you mean? I see a lot that's encouraging.
Look at all the
discussion that we are having. Look how hard
people >are working to
try to find mutually agreeable solutions. Look how
civilized and
cautious the decisionmaking is.
I didn't read all post (translate is fastidious for me), but in those I read I see words as "silly", "pushy French attitude" and other not so friendly sentence. Hope it's just translation mistake ;o)
In american english (and in Maverick voice), I think "silly" is rather friendly. A bit like "gros b�ta". It is not very offending, rather a gentle reproach. Perhaps slightly friendly moquery.
Not in french. Saying to someone he is "idiot" (the translation of silly) is *not* friendly. And not encouraging at all.
I remember Mav also told me I was silly once. I then thought of a computer game I played a long time ago, where the hero party met a colony of very friendly spiders. The cute little spiders were using the adjective "silly" (this was the english version). But they did not mean to offense. So, I said nothing to Mav.
But perhaps would it be wise to be cautious while using this word ?
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