On Sun, 19 May 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > * There is a small (but larger) group of people who promote Hebrew on > > linux-il on the patriotic grounds that "Swedes do it, Finns do it". > > No they don't. They have No, ZERO, NADA, ZIP, efes, Hebrew on their lists. > And have you ever looked at their lists? How much Swedish, Finnish, etc > do the have on them? I'll bet all the really juicy questions are in English > or if not, could be understood by an English speaker.
You are 100% wrong here, as a simple check would have shown you. And since my support for hebrew on this mailing list might be considered to have patriotic grounds, I feel compelled to say that your interpretation are wrong. This has nothing to do with patriotism (to which I strongly object), but is only a matter of using my mother tongue, which is the language in which I am most fluent (or at least, least influent. I have been to one Linux-il dinner (a few years) ago, and I remember that the discussions were done in hebrew, so I assume the same argument is true for most subscribers of this list. > > * A significant number of people (I am not sure if it is a majority, > > but it seems so) think that the technical nature of the list favors > > English over Hebrew. Creating a second list will split the discussion. > > IMHO fine. If you want only Israeli's to answer you, use your software, > etc, say it in Hebrew. If you hope for wider distribution, you'll have > to say it in English. Mightas well start out that way. If you want to get to more than "only Israeli's", why write to linux-il? > > * There seems to be a consensus that technically we are not there yet, > > especially where writing Hebrew is concerned. This is where I think > > the most important point is. I did not notice such a consensus. Actually, the thread(s) started by someone who thinks that the problems are solved. And the most issues raised by nay-sayers are about installation. > I think fighting Microsoft is a bad thing. They've already won "the hearts > and minds" of the Hebrew computer using masses. s/Hebrew// The issue here is not MS. It is about people who want to use their preferred language and their preferred OS at the same time, and don't see the contradiction. -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
