[Toolserver-l] ts-admins language

[Andre Koopal]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:13:41PM +0200, seth wrote:
> Hi and 'gudn tach'!
> 
> On Tue, June 29, 2010 12:37, Marcus Buck wrote:
> > Andre Koopal hett schreven:
> >> The solution we mostly take is to answer in dutch or swedish or
> >> something :-)
> >>
> > Wow, how mature... Hoe durven ze geen Engels te spreken?
> >
> > If River Tarnell does not speak German and recommends using English if
> > people want to get a quick answer from him without one of River's
> > co-admins being interpreter, that's of course okay. But intentionally
> > being unhelpful to people who in good faith use their native language
> > (which in the case of German will be understood on this list) is just
> > offensive and arrogant.
> 
> On the other hand you could call someone offensive or arrogant (or at
> least not-thinking-enough), if he uses his small native language in an
> international project.
> 
> Of course, in most cases none of them is really arrogant or maliciously
> offensive. If someone replies in Swedish on a German request, one could
> take it as nothing but a joke and a hint 'try using the common language,
> please!', which mostly will be English, nowadays.
> 
> iow: agf should hold for questioners _and_ repliers. :-)
> 
> cheers/prost
> seth

Indeed, that is just the intend, a friendly reminderr, and almost always
working as such.

Regards,

Andre
> 
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