[Ubuntu-be] Enough already!

[Christophe Vandeplas]

I can only confirm this...
Let's hope this good and lenghty mail will be the end of these endless
and useless discussions.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Alex Ficelle
<alexficelle.pub at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
>  Some people speak only Dutch, some people speak only French, some both
>  Dutch and French or French and Dutch, some can also speak English, some
>  no English at all. No matter the combination of languages you choose,
>  not everybody will ever be totally satisfied or comfortable.
>
>  I notice the current language "policy" used on this mailing list has
>  worked well until now. Those who can, write in English; those who
>  cannot, write in their own language. Messages intended for everybody
>  were written in English; messages intended only for people speaking a
>  certain language were written in that language. People who could not
>  read the language used in a particular message, but felt that particular
>  message might be of interest, asked for the meaning or for a translation
>  on the list or made a special effort to decode it by themselves.
>
>  As for real-life meetings, English has always been the lingua frenca
>  (even if a clumsy one) and has enabled us to communicate when the whole
>  group was concerned (even if communication was not 100 % perfect) and to
>  get things done or going. People usually reverted to French or Dutch
>  when speaking of informal matters in smaller sub-groups (during breaks,
>  for example); they usually switched back to English when someone who
>  could not understand the language felt an interest in the topic at hand.
>
>  In the past few months, I reduced my involvement in Ubuntu-be
>  significantly because of big (time-consuming) changes in my personal
>  life. I kept reading this list, though (and I have no problem reading
>  messages in English, Dutch, French or German). And I must say I do
>  really not like the new trend in the past few months of debating over
>  language "issues" more than organizing events about Ubuntu.
>
>  I read many times repeated that the current language policy would drive
>  people away from the list. Like I said above, my experience has shown
>  that the policy has worked well until now. And right now, those sterile
>  and endless debates about language are driving me away from the list,
>  not the policy.
>
>  Alexandre
>
>
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