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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20100927/001404.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20100927/001404.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0f3395aff --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20100927/001404.html @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] List language + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20List%20language&In-Reply-To=%3CAANLkTikXVmYFK_46fvh4zSWSgd11ihjrhSLHV7ghLHqx%40mail.gmail.com%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="001406.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="001390.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] List language</H1> + <B>Romain d'Alverny</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20List%20language&In-Reply-To=%3CAANLkTikXVmYFK_46fvh4zSWSgd11ihjrhSLHV7ghLHqx%40mail.gmail.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] List language">rdalverny at gmail.com + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Sep 27 18:45:56 CEST 2010</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001406.html">[Mageia-discuss] List language +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001390.html">[Mageia-discuss] presentation + summary request +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1404">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1404">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1404">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1404">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 17:49, Lucien-Henry Horvath <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">tempo2 at marneau.eu</A>> wrote: +><i> [...] +</I>><i> For me english is not THE culture of the world ... and a lot of countries +</I>><i> are thinking that. +</I> +So do I. It does not prevent me from using English when I believe it +is the most appropriate communication tool. + +It's not a matter of "which is the most spoken language" or "which +would be the one world language" for culture or anything else +(nonsense). Far from that, for a native English speaker (even a native +American English speaker) must certainly have a hard time not to +correct people all the time here. :-) + +It's a matter of having a common "working language" for everyone. Here +(mageia-discuss), we use English as a lingua franca/vehicular +language. Because: + - it's the most likely available international language that we, the +founding team, manage to read/write/speak; + - it's the most likely common language for everyone we expect to +involve in this project at this time; + - we're not in this to promote full interaction in each other native +language (that would be a nice challenge great, but it's not this +place's goal). + +In other places, you/we may/will use locally more appropriate idioms +(blogs, other local ml, websites, forums). + +Mageia-discuss is a list: + - where people can resonate discussions from other places/idioms; + - from which people can translate/purport discussions to other places/idioms. + +We use "English" here. Note that doesn't prevent from using local +pieces of idioms when in context and explained. + +Cheers! Santé ! + +Romain +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001406.html">[Mageia-discuss] List language +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001390.html">[Mageia-discuss] presentation + summary request +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1404">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1404">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1404">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1404">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |