2010/9/9 Mahesh Aravind <[email protected]>: > I second Praseed on this. For technical discussion, over Internet, English is > the best option (so far). Many people can't input Malayalam without some > circus > (more or less like the one this thread discusses).
You are making some assumptions here, 1. Everyone can converse in English fluently 2. Technical discussions are effective only in English I don't think both of these assumptions are valid. and a natural corollary is - expertise in English language is mandatory to communicate over the internet. > Praveen, basic netiquette requires that you honour whatever native language of > the chat room/mailinglist. If nothing, default to English. Because historically it was difficult to communicate in any other language than English. Do you want that status to continue? > I don't think SMC has a secret agenda of converting all lists/chat rooms to > Malayalam, does it? Our stated agenda is to remove language barrier to computing. It is not a secret agenda. We would love to see all user groups in Kerala allowing discussions in Malayalam. Lets have this discussion here, Does this list want to impose English only emails? Lets see what everyone thinks. > Thomas -- kindly keep the font size ~11pt. I'd suggest, everyone DISABLE their > HTML feature when sending mails to this list. +1 -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
