[Ubuntu-be] Enough already!

[Bruno De Bondt]

Agree wholeheartedly.

.: liezie :. wrote:
> Yeah. Its getting tiring.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Christophe Vandeplas 
> <christophe at vandeplas.com <mailto:christophe at vandeplas.com>> wrote:
>
>     I can only confirm this...
>     Let's hope this good and lenghty mail will be the end of these endless
>     and useless discussions.
>
>
>     On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Alex Ficelle
>     <alexficelle.pub at gmail.com <mailto:alexficelle.pub at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Dear list,
>     >
>     >  Some people speak only Dutch, some people speak only French,
>     some both
>     >  Dutch and French or French and Dutch, some can also speak
>     English, some
>     >  no English at all. No matter the combination of languages you
>     choose,
>     >  not everybody will ever be totally satisfied or comfortable.
>     >
>     >  I notice the current language "policy" used on this mailing
>     list has
>     >  worked well until now. Those who can, write in English; those who
>     >  cannot, write in their own language. Messages intended for
>     everybody
>     >  were written in English; messages intended only for people
>     speaking a
>     >  certain language were written in that language. People who
>     could not
>     >  read the language used in a particular message, but felt that
>     particular
>     >  message might be of interest, asked for the meaning or for a
>     translation
>     >  on the list or made a special effort to decode it by themselves.
>     >
>     >  As for real-life meetings, English has always been the lingua
>     frenca
>     >  (even if a clumsy one) and has enabled us to communicate when
>     the whole
>     >  group was concerned (even if communication was not 100 %
>     perfect) and to
>     >  get things done or going. People usually reverted to French or
>     Dutch
>     >  when speaking of informal matters in smaller sub-groups (during
>     breaks,
>     >  for example); they usually switched back to English when
>     someone who
>     >  could not understand the language felt an interest in the topic
>     at hand.
>     >
>     >  In the past few months, I reduced my involvement in Ubuntu-be
>     >  significantly because of big (time-consuming) changes in my
>     personal
>     >  life. I kept reading this list, though (and I have no problem
>     reading
>     >  messages in English, Dutch, French or German). And I must say I do
>     >  really not like the new trend in the past few months of
>     debating over
>     >  language "issues" more than organizing events about Ubuntu.
>     >
>     >  I read many times repeated that the current language policy
>     would drive
>     >  people away from the list. Like I said above, my experience has
>     shown
>     >  that the policy has worked well until now. And right now, those
>     sterile
>     >  and endless debates about language are driving me away from the
>     list,
>     >  not the policy.
>     >
>     >  Alexandre
>     >
>     >
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