[Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

[Lodewijk]

(not pointing to anyone specifically)

could we please stop this side track now? I think everybody knows what the
other person means, and it doesn't really matter after all... at least not
to this discussion.

Lodewijk

2010/6/7 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>

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> --- On Mon, 6/7/10, Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > From: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a
> Bad Idea, part 2
> > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 8:55 AM
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:42 AM,
> > Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
> > > If you don't know the history of racial issues in the
> > US, you might not
> > > realize just how serious a subject lynching is. In
> > that cultural
> > > context, it is not something to be joked about.
> >
> > Your post is a brilliant example of agressive disrespect of
> > other
> > cultures where lynching is merely a verb which means
> > "execution by
> > mob" (I think if you told someone in Russia that
> > "lyniching" is an
> > offensive verb, he would most probably belive you said
> > something
> > silly). Bear in mind that only 0.55 % of the world
> > population are
> > sensitive about lyncing.
>
> That post can only being seen as an example of "agressive disrespect of
> other cultures" by people who think happening to be born in the USA is an
> agressive disrespect of other cultures.  Americans are people too!
>
> Birgitte SB
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