SV: Re: [sdiy] Newbie

[Karl Ekdahl]

While english is the preferred language, those - if
any - who are unable to express themselves fully in
english should be allowed to write in their native
language. This way other sdiy-members could act like
translators and therefore extend the sharing of
knowledge even further. Maybe this is a utopic thought
but it wouldn't be more than fair really..

One good point of using english as far as it goes
while discussing electronics etc. is that there are so
many terms that are widely used in their english sence
regardless of whatever language is spoken "around"
these terms. Reading, for example, a
electronics/physics/whatever book in swedish (my
native language) can be a *real* PITA because the
writers have inserted ridicoulus translations of
defacto english-defined terms. Sometimes you simply
don't know what they mean just because they insist of
using swedish.

whoa, i'm starting to feel like i'm misspelling every
english word here... 

Karl


--- Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> skrev:

> 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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