RE: Official language of midrange.com (was RE: SQL)

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

david,

TAA, see inline...

jt

| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com
| [mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
| Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:30 AM
| To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
| Subject: Re: Official language of midrange.com (was RE: SQL)
|
|
| At 08:42 AM 12/28/2001, you wrote:
| >Do you object if posters with questions/answers clarify a few points in a
| >language other than English?  (I ask, because I'd think it
| daunting to get
| >up the nerve to post a question in a language I'm not fluent in, myself.)
| >Once the connection is made, posters can contact each other off-list, in
| >whatever language they choose.
|
| The point of the lists is to SHARE knowledge ... if posts are made in
| foreign languages, then 95% of the people on the list probably can't
| benefit from the information.

I see what you're saying, and agree completely.  I'm talking about posting
to the lists, but if it requires clarification that people can't get across
in English, they COULD continue the exchange off-list.

|
| This is why I set the lists REPLY-TO to the list address ... so when you
| reply, the message goes to the list instead of the person who posted the
| original.

Again, I agree with the sharing of knowledge...  I'm just saying it's a good
thing the community of list-members is international, but not everyone
"speaks" (writes) clearly in English.  So thought a mostly-English post
could benefit from foreign-language clarification.

Maybe the poster can just suggest an alternate language, for off-list
follow-ups.  Hopefully the original posters would reply back (in English) of
the final resolution of the issue.  (But then.. that doesn't always happen
with English-language posts, either.)

|
| david
|
| p.s. ASFD6%^ LK**^645 ()$ jjj
|
| p.p.s. For those of you who don't understand my family language,
| GIBBerish,
| those were the winning lottery ticket numbers for the big game next week.

I'm normally fluent in gibberish...;-)  But you speak a dialect here that
I'm not familiar with.  "those were winning lottery ticket numbers for the
big game next week"...?!?

You know winning numbers for NEXT week...?!?  You got anything on the Ohio
Lotto winners...?!?  (Please reply OFF-LIST...!)

What is the "big game"...?  The Ohio State football team already whupped
Michigan's arse...  So I don't get it...  ;-D