The good thing about english is that we all feel included. The bad side is that you are not gonna reach ost of the people you will like
Yep, that's exactly the dilemma. You're probably right that the number of new users we might reach (who need to be at least bilingual, as you say and as I say above), is perhaps limited. Yet these are people we do want to reach.
And thanks for not feeling excluded by my French. But why should you be? You write great French (or whatever it was). I understood it, anyway, I think. (les raons que dius??)
Me too. I looked at it a couple of times, and there was no english in it at that time. My (many years ago) schoolgirl french enabled me to pick up some words, and make guesses at meaning, but certainly not enough to join in. For me, one of the reasons I didn't feel able to ask for translation was a sense of embarrassment at my lack of proficiency in other languages.
Those of us who can should make the effort of the translation to post in both languages... and this is the only weak point I see from a new SCOOP... we will have the time and will?
The question of what happens meanwhile remains. what happens if all diaries or most are written in a language that we/I/most of us do not understand...and should we try to attract people with a very basic english by doing foreign language diaries.
I must say I do not have an answer at all. NO idea. Please afew.. I am waiting for your solution.. you know anybody can change my mine very easily sometimes.
And catalan is almost my natural language in writing...it is very easy if you are in an english keyboard without "accent" for the vowels. So I can write catalan any time you want...spoken is even nicer
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
Spoken Catalan is harder for me to understand... And even written is quite hard, since I'm coming at from a partial acquaintance with Occitan and have to make adjustments, though they're fairly similar. (Maybe not Barcelona slang, though...)
Please do reply to Migeru's question about Catalan/Castilian etiquette.
