Hi,
I think it is still acceptable to use English (and not three languages)
for this thread (and this
thread only) as we are still in a transition period.
Le 19/10/2010 10:53, Lilly Nguyen a écrit :
I have to say, this seems a tad complicated and confusing, although I
understand the original problem this is trying to address. Knowing
me, I'll probably end up mis-posting to the wrong list so I apologize
in advance for this!
Well no solution is 100% flawless. Each one has its advantages and
drawbacks.
One question though: does it seem that this kind of language forking
almost makes for three separate silos when LUG should function more
as a clearing house for ALL discussions? I'm just concerned that this
may "ghetto-ize" the already small community and further isolate each
other, when we should have more cross-conversations with one another.
At least in the previous form (with all three languages all
together), there was more of an opportunity for people to cross-talk,
even if they didn't entirely understand everything. Now, I'm just
afraid that for those people who only speak ONE of the three
languages, they may miss out even more.
It is just like in a physical multicultural meeting : you see people and
when you want to talk with them, you would naturally talk Vietnamese
with people who can't visibly speak English, and you would speak English
(or French, or...) with foreigners who visibly don't speak or understand
Vietnamese.
In this Hanoilug multicultural group, it's the same principle : you want
to address to Vietnamese-speaking members, you just write in Vietnamese.
You want to address English-speaking members, you just write to them in
English. Etc. If you want to follow the discussion in Vietnamese and in
English, you need to subscribe to both. If you cannot follow anything in
Vietnamese, you just drop out from the main hanoilug list and register
with the English specific one. Etc. For people who can understand 2 or 3
languages, it is more work to follow discussions on three lists but for
people who can only follow one language and not Vietnamese, it
alleviates the problem of receiving lots of posts in Vietnamese which
will clutter the mailbox in an useless way.
Moreover, if you know that a list is mainly posting in Vietnamese, it
can be a drawback for foreign people who can't follow Vietnamese to
register. Hopefully with this new setting we can have better
communicating tools.
I remind you that there is no 100% satisfactory solution.
regards
--
M. VU DO Quynh
AUF (Tổ chức hợp tác ĐH Pháp ngữ)
Campus numérique francophone (CNF) de Hanoi
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