-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2014 07:49 PM, Thomas Hogarth wrote: > This guy has been keeping me entertained for days. > > Sometimes I wonder if some bot somewhere has gained a small amount > of self awareness and is trying to make friends on the osg mailing > list. > > Maybe we have a Turing test winner in our midst. > > lol
Most likely a hobbyist/newbie that communicates in English through a computer translator. I have worked with Chinese students and this was a fairly common problem. Most of the bizarre and seemingly malicious behaviour we encountered was simply due to the language barrier (people picking up a word here and there) and both sides extrapolating too much from the written text. The cultural differences don't make things easier neither - e.g. online etiquette, concepts of attribution, copyright, etc. don't mean necessarily the same thing to a "Westerner" and someone from there. By that I don't mean that the Chinese/Asian people are "boorish" but that simply some things that are OK there are not OK here and vice versa - heck, even American presidents are known for their faux pas! I wouldn't jump to conclusions about his/her intentions here. Ideally a native Mandarin speaker should contact the person in private and explain that they are coming across really poorly. I am sure the issue will be cleared up in one direction or another rather quickly then. J. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iD8DBQFTrGhxn11XseNj94gRAiWNAJsFH6FmD+AHddHBkpSs4tIGAi4aHACeJVgW zMiYS2fzO6VccdCc1qbgEgI= =lrfb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
