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[Bart Provoost]

I think that if someone has a question, he would like to reach as much
people (on the list) as possible, so I think he will automatically choose
English :)

As a Belgian I learnt 4 languages at school: Dutch, French, German, English
(6 if you add Latin and Ancient Greek, but that's too long ago ;)), which is
very useful on the net (e.g. for buying things on eBay that are "Germany
only" ;))


Bart
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On 11/3/05, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
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