(not pointing to anyone specifically) could we please stop this side track now? I think everybody knows what the other person means, and it doesn't really matter after all... at least not to this discussion.
Lodewijk 2010/6/7 Birgitte SB <[email protected]> > > > --- On Mon, 6/7/10, Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a > Bad Idea, part 2 > > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" < > [email protected]> > > Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 8:55 AM > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:42 AM, > > Michael Snow <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > If you don't know the history of racial issues in the > > US, you might not > > > realize just how serious a subject lynching is. In > > that cultural > > > context, it is not something to be joked about. > > > > Your post is a brilliant example of agressive disrespect of > > other > > cultures where lynching is merely a verb which means > > "execution by > > mob" (I think if you told someone in Russia that > > "lyniching" is an > > offensive verb, he would most probably belive you said > > something > > silly). Bear in mind that only 0.55 % of the world > > population are > > sensitive about lyncing. > > That post can only being seen as an example of "agressive disrespect of > other cultures" by people who think happening to be born in the USA is an > agressive disrespect of other cultures. Americans are people too! > > Birgitte SB > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
