On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks
> 
> I hate to interrupt this fruitful discussion about the politically correct way
> of resolving languages issues, but can we get back to the issue at hand, 
> please?
> 
> No one is forbidden from using their native language. For getting help 
> quickly,
> writing in English is probably a good idea. That's all.
> 
> Please keep in mind that a basic level of English is a REQUIREMENT for 
> getting a
> toolserver account, simply for the reason that admins need to be able to
> communicate with users directly, and users have to understand rules,
> announcements, etc.
> 
> I don't see how a general debate about netiquette in multilingual projects is
> relevant to the toolserver list. It's an interesting topic, for sure, but this
> isn't the place. English is the lingua franca on the toolserver.  We'll all 
> have
> to live with that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
> 
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Well put. But this raises an interesting point: pooling all the sysadmins and 
such together, how many (and which) languages are spoken by the toolserver 
administration? Is this something that could be posted somewhere?
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