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 :)<br>
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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" ;))<br>
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Bart<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/3/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Gravenhorst</b> <<a href="mailto:music.maker@gte.net">music.maker@gte.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I share your and Harry's positive sentiments toward cultures other than our own.<br><br>That said, there is only one problem that I see: Without an accepted de facto standard language for<br>a forum such as ours, it would degrade into a tower of babel. If we were all allowed (and
<br>encouraged) to post in whatever language we preferred, this forum could not exist with the large<br>population we enjoy, rather it would splinter into groups consisting of each language represented.<br> Those groups would then be isolated and deprived of talent and experience that exists in others.
<br><br>Again, I mean no disrespect to anyone here, and in fact, I admire those who can speak more than one<br>language (I am on of them, I speak a good bit of German, and I am an American...) and put up with<br>the hodge-podge grammatical and spelling mess that is the English language.
<br><br>For an internet forum, this boils down to the simple practicality of universal communication. That<br>requires picking one language. Here, English has been accepted as that standard. The use of a<br>single standard for language allows far more ideas to be discussed and I would like it to stay that
<br>way.<br><br>We have all accepted the symbol standards for representing electronic components in schematics, I<br>see no reason to deviate from that paradigm for written communication for precisely the same reasons.</blockquote>
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