Jack Aubert a écrit:
> At 07:06 PM 8/27/98 -0400, Fernando Cabral wrote:
> >
> >
> >Mac Oglesby wrote:
> ... etc
>
> Sorry to prolong the off-topic thread, but ...
>
> I don't really read Portugese, although I can generally catcgh the the gist
> from other romance languages, but I do enjoy the linguistic diversity and
> like the idea that this list isn't 100% english. The monophones should
> bear in mind that there are a number of other widely spoken languages and
> the fact that they can't read everything doesn't mean that others can't.
> Mentioning Mandarin, Hindi, Xosha or whatever is a red herring. There are
> several European languages that English speakers ought to be familiar with
> for reasons of cultural proximity, including French, Spanish, German,
> Latin, ...the list fades off rather than terminates. So if Jorge posts in
> Portugese some people will read it, others will pass over it. He knows
> that. But there are people in the world who don't speak English, or at
> least don't write it comfortably enough to post something coherent. Can't
> they ask questions, too? There will be some who can understand them and
> they will probably get an answer.
>
> If one were to post something in Albanian there is probably nobody on the
> list that can read it, and it would be ignored. So what. No harm done. I
> think postings in any language should be tolerated -- either read or
> ignored.
>
> Jack Aubert
>
Comme vous tous, passionné de cadrans solaires, j'aime beaucoup l'esprit de
votre mailing-list.
Le débat sur les langues employées était très intéressant : j'ai appris que je
n'étais pas le seul non-anglophone. Mes derniers souvenirs d'anglais datent de
mes études secondaires !
Mais quand le sujet est intéressant, j'essaie de comprendre, que ce soit de
l'espagnol, de l'allemand ou de l'anglais. Le langage idéal de l'Internet
pourrait être ... l'esperanto, non ?
Gnomoniquement vôtre !
And now, a kind of translation !! Hum, hum !!! ;-}
I'm very interested in sundials, like all of you in this mailing-list. The
debate about langages in use in Sundial was not ouf of interest : I did learn
that I'm not the only non-english speaker ! But my english is a little bit old,
as far as my studies, twenty years ago !.
In fact, when the subjet in valuable, I try to understand the words, even in
Englis, German or Spanish.
Couldn't the universal language of Internet, be the ... ESPERANTO ?
Sundially yours !
