[sdiy] Newbie

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I share your and Harry's positive sentiments toward cultures other than our own.  

That said, there is only one problem that I see: Without an accepted de facto standard language for
a forum such as ours, it would degrade into a tower of babel.  If we were all allowed (and
encouraged) to post in whatever language we preferred, this forum could not exist with the large
population we enjoy, rather it would splinter into groups consisting of each language represented.
 Those groups would then be isolated and deprived of talent and experience that exists in others.

Again, I mean no disrespect to anyone here, and in fact, I admire those who can speak more than one
language (I am on of them, I speak a good bit of German, and I am an American...) and put up with
the hodge-podge grammatical and spelling mess that is the English language.  

For an internet forum, this boils down to the simple practicality of universal communication.  That
requires picking one language.  Here, English has been accepted as that standard.  The use of a
single standard for language allows far more ideas to be discussed and I would like it to stay that
way.

We have all accepted the symbol standards for representing electronic components in schematics, I
see no reason to deviate from that paradigm for written communication for precisely the same reasons.


Scott Stites <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>Hey Harry (and all),
>
>>Although I do not 'speak' Spanish, I'm willing to give it a try. I can get
>>enough out of it to make sense of the conversation.  I'd be happy to
>>try Finnish as well.  Magnus has given me a few words of Sweedish,
>>at least I can say "Hej" to everyone.  (Hej Magnus, and Senso :^)
>
>I deeply appreciate that those who are not native English 
>speakers, or even native American English speakers, putting forth 
>the effort to post in English. By the same token, I have no 
>problem with non-English posts either. Speaking English should 
>not be a prerequisite for enjoying Synth DIY. And, as Harry 
>points out, it can be an educational experience in itself. The 
>key to variation in culture is embedded in language itself 
>(understanding Vietnamese has allowed me to understand my wife 
>much better in ways other than speaking). 
>
>All I ask is that all the airline pilots/ATC know at least one common language =-D
>
>Harry, you can add 'Hei' to your list (almost my total Finnish 
>lexicon there, BTW). So you can add 'Hei Antti' =0). 
>
>That part's easy - one feels like one is living in Mayberry when 
>one greets in Finland. The rest of Finnish - oooohhh, man!! I've 
>spent many an hour poring over multi-language hotel guides (you 
>know, here's the same thing in English, German, French, Swedish 
>and Finnish). With most languages one can pick through and 
>identify a few words and make some sense of it. Then you get to 
>the paragraph in Finnish and everything just flies out the 
>window. Very fascinating language. 
>
>Synth DIY content: hmmmm....In order to gate one's spouse 
>effectively, one has to speak the native tongue of the spouse. 
>
>Cheerio,
>Scott
>
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