[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

Tue Oct 5 04:36:42 CEST 2010

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Richard <richard.j.walker at ntlworld.com> wrote:
+
+>
+> So I reckon that somewhere for English speaking people from the UK to hang out
+> is, I think, a great idea - so long as we don't need to present our passports
+> to prove citizenship:-)
+>
+> Richard
+>
+>
+
+I disagree. As a US Enlgish speaker, I also wrote for the UK-based
+Linux Format magazine. There are differences in US and UK English, but
+none so severe that meaning is lost. Many idioms are shared or at
+least understandable.
+
+I appreciate the efforts of non-native English speakers to converse in
+English, and even in those instances where they are speaking only a
+bare approximation of English, I am still able to understand them.
+
+I see no need for a GB-only enclave and believe it would only serve to
+isolate them from the larger community. OTOH, where a Linux-oriented
+community exists where many do not speake English in any manner, a
+local-language forun serves to include them in the larger community
+where the lingua-franca is English.
+
+-- 
+Cheers,
+Hoyt
+