On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Marcus Buck wiki@marcusbuck.org wrote:
This "common language" is spoken by less than a quarter of the world population. If we only count decent English it's more like 10%.
But it's spoken by everyone on this list and everyone with a toolserver account. German is spoken by a much lower percentage than 100%. You can post in German here, but it's going to be gibberish to most subscribers, and having nontrivial quantities of gibberish in your inbox is pretty annoying. So personally, at least I would get annoyed if we had a significant amount of German discussion going on here -- I'd suggest that it be moved to a separate German list so I wouldn't have to sort through lots of mail that's completely useless to me. (Although, this particular list is so low-traffic that it wouldn't matter.)