On Wed, May 22, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "RE: Hebrew Here - "Final" Verdict": > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > Please don't call it Linux-heb! i, and i am sure many others will not > > join a list that is called linux-heb. > > Its like adding insult to injury. I don't think the situation has to be
I'm still annoyed by the way people consider the fact that the first list we had was in English, and how people that (according to them) cherish tradition can't understand why this list is traditionally is in English, and thus the new one is "the Hebrew list" (and not "THE list"). But still, I made a constructive suggestion for a name in the Hebrew list (see, I'm not just bitching, I actually subscribed to that Hebrew list to make a difference. I also intend to answer questions there). I said that the domain name "iglu.org.il" (or linux.org.il) already refered to linux, so it was not necessary to have that in the user name too: so I suggested a name like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (making diun@iglu the group's "official" name). Another name I'm thinking of just now is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - why do we need that extra "-il", when we have a ".il" at the end already? > > accommodated by emphasising that a "real" list should not be in hebrew > > and so we created a list for the english-challenged. Actually the "real" list is indeed NOT in Hebrew, and will remain like that in the forseeable future. The Hebrew spinoff is indeed not the "real" list - most of the great people we have on this list will unfortunately not subscribe to the Hebrew one, at least not initially, because of configuration hassles, disinterest or other reasons. Some people will never move to the Hebrew spinoff because they don't know Hebrew at all. By the way, you should be aware of the fact that Hebrew is not the only official language in Israel: Arabic is too. So even though that Hebrew is indeed the most common languague, it cannot be considered the only "real" Israeli language. As a corollary, it might also be useful to open an Arabic version of the list; There might be Arab-Israelis who know Hebrew but find it easier to talk in Arabic - just like most Hebrew-speakers know English but are more comfortable with Hebrew. Unfortunately I personally will not be able to join the Arabic list, because I don't speak Arabic, which is actually a shame :( -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, May 22 2002, 11 Sivan 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |How's he gonna read that magazine rolled http://nadav.harel.org.il |up like that? What the ... - a fly. ================================================================= 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]
