Siebe Berveling wrote:
>As Rieks said, most dutchman can express themselves quite well in (not
>always very beautiful) english.
English is never beautiful, it's a speech disorder ;)
But seriously though, I don't mind single non-english messages that much IF
- the person is totally incapable of writing understandable english
- someone who does speak both languages provides a translation
- non-english discussions (replies etc.) be taken into private e-mail
- messages are only directed at people from a certain country, this should
be clearly stated in the subject or at least the top of the message.
I think we can all agree on this, can't we? And ofcourse accidents happen,
so don't start flaming right away.
>Of course we could give it a try, but what I am scared of, is that it'll be
>a non-MSX happening, like what happened to the dutch echomail. That
>became a meeting point for MSX-guys, but the talking subject was 'pub-
>alike'.
You can also see this sometimes in the MSX newsgroup comp.sys.msx! Although
usually they keep it english, it gets kinda out of hand once in a while
(huge off-topic talk).
Greetz,
Patriek
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