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Re: Re: Re: Re: Non-English posts on Perlmonks

by wufnik (Friar)
on Jul 11, 2003 at 09:45 UTC ( [id://273310]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Re: Non-English posts on Perlmonks
in thread Non-English posts on Perlmonks

thank you for this intelligent & measured commentary, in which there is nothing i really object to. in particular, i like your last point re: how it may encourage those who do not speak, and i wholeheartedly agree that community is what perl monks is about.

at present it is emphatically not a problem, and you are right in that /ignore could be practically used and modified to deal with other cases. i do not propose censoring anything, i merely think it worth recommending posts be in english. why?

my fear stems from the case in which non-english postings rise to a level where there become 'english', 'french' and 'german' perl monk sites, independent of each other. with the monastery divided, no-one bothers to translate posts they consider minor, the number of potentially useful nuggets in the information mine - for the community in general, not just english speakers - becomes less, and we are all left the poorer.

regards,

wufnik

-- in the world of the mules there are no rules

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Re: Non-English posts on Perlmonks
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 11, 2003 at 11:25 UTC
    Well, in that case, instead of forcing others to write English, you could learn German.

    Abigail

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