[sdiy] [OT] Newbie

[Senso]

These were my thoughts, just better worded here. I enjoy being 
confronted with other languages and cultures, but a synth-diy site is 
just not the place I would select for such a rewarding experience. ;-)
All I wanted to suggest that, if answers and advise in languages 
other than English are given, this would (to my personal opinion) be 
better done off-list between those who both master that language. If 
on-list, the less common the language, the more people that have no 
other option than to hit the delete button, interesting subject or 
not.
'nuff said,
Senso


>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 Gravenhorst | LegoManiac / Lego Trains / RIS 1.5

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