[WikiEN-l] Re: Audience : was Re: pictures of genetalia
Daniel Mayer
maveric149 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 13 08:45:16 UTC 2004
Anthere wrote:
>I am a representant of your french audience.
>You could write for me.
No I can't, since I don't speak French. But since you speak and read English
you *are* part of the audience I write for when I write in English (just not
the primary one).
>I guess we will have both to see that we are not
>writing for the same audience. As long as you
>accept that some do not recognise these notions
>of *primary* and *secondary* as valid, while others
>do, that is fine.
This whole discussion was more academic than practical since things naturally
develop toward what I described unless unnatural force is applied to direct
things down another path (which does happen for individual articles but on
the whole it is not a very significant force).
Those of us who speak more than one language, however, should remember that
there are different notions of how to organize information in different
languages. They should therefore not just assume that the way they do things
in their primary language is necessarily transferable in other languages they
may know.
This is one thing that I have learned while working on Wikipedia.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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