[cod] Probleme de library
Ryan C. Gordon
icculus at icculus.org
Sun Dec 16 22:57:46 EST 2007
> PS:
> Why should we turn away people from the best cod4 mailinglist in the
> world just because they don't speak english. But It's not my mailing
> list I don't know the rules.
We don't. At least, it's not my policy to do so...most of the admins
here don't speak anything but English, but there is definitely
representation from large sections of Europe here, so I don't think we
should insulate the experts from those in need.
So I'll just ask for general assistance here: if someone asks a question
in your native language, even if you've answered it a million times, and
even if it's just a "rtfm" ... please help us ignorant monolingual
Americans out and point them in the right direction!
> > This is an English mailing list, please learn some English!
I'm reminded of when I was asking strangers for directions in Madrid, my
whole life strapped to my back, stumbling through the Spanish for
"please point me to a hotel for poor people." It wasn't just
embarrassing for the lack of language, but also the content, but that
was my life at the time. I was amazed to discover people through those
conversations that wanted to try their hand at English as broken as my
Español; they were so proud of what they had learned.
After that, I would never guess people would be proud to _not_ speak
someone else's language. As a general policy, let's try to avoid
self-congratulation of ignorance.
--ryan.
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