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the language issue at ET: a dissenting view | 251 comments (251 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: the language issue at ET: a dissenting view (none / 0)

Well, Bob, you know this kind things depend very much on each one.... but jsts imagine what you do when you meet a japanese web page... or chinese or arab.. I just have no other option that forget it...May be I am wrong but I would say that you can do it but you do not like to do it here, because you feel in a special place and you would not like to apply this behaviour here. I perfectly understand it.

I guess it is also a question of number of diaries we do not understand. If the trend becomes that all the diaries are written in a language you do not understand..well then ET will be different and you will not feel at home any more.

My two cents.

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

by kcurie on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 09:31:00 AM EST
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Re: the language issue at ET: a dissenting view (none / 0)

exactly, kcurie...it's not that I don't want things to change, just maybe not so much that I can no longer participate or feel at home. Oh well, sometimes these are things beyond our control, eh? Anyway, sometimes a person just has to say what they are worried about, then see where it goes...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 09:39:21 AM EST
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I support you completely on this diary. Completely and without reservation. Independently on what conclusion I take ...Amazingly I still do not have any opinion on what would be best :).. well it is not so strange.. it happens sometimes...when I do not think I have to take the decision.

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

by kcurie on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 09:46:36 AM EST
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"Amazingly I still do not have any opinion on what would be best"

Me neither. It's a question of experimenting to see what happens. But I think I've said that about ten times now. So I'll stop.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 09:53:42 AM EST
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I expect that the front-page and most diaries will remain in English regardless.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 09:59:34 AM EST
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Re: the language issue at ET: a dissenting view (none / 0)

This is good news. And I do not see the harm with English becoming a sort of lingua franca. It already is in corporate world, and this has nothing to do with the accession of the new EU member states.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 06:48:11 AM EST
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Re: the language issue at ET: a dissenting view (none / 0)

Agnes, I hate to take issue with you (eeek!), but this is not really news. There was never any question of doing away with English as ET's lingua franca.

I feel I must issue a disclaimer:

No, I did not post a diary in French as the first act of a French-language takeover of EuroTrib. :-)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 07:08:45 AM EST
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Re: I could not take issues with you afew (none / 0)

I am too busy taking issues with Migeru.;-)

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 07:25:50 AM EST
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Re: I could not take issues with you afew (none / 0)

At least one of us finds it amusing...

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 07:38:52 AM EST
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