[Wikipedia-l] Vote on voting method for final round

[Anthere]

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 béta". 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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