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- From: gusty@clark.net (Harlan Messinger)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: ÷┼╠┼┌╬┴╤ ─╧╥╧╟┴(╬╒╓┼╬ ┴╠╟╧╥╔╘═)╙═.╨╔╙╪═╧
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 22:38:24 GMT
- Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
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- Bruce Geerdes (bgeerdes@igs.com) wrote:
- : Harlan Messinger (gusty@clark.net) wrote:
- : >Albert Dorofiev (albert@sonytel.be) wrote:
- : >: Would you mind using English, please? I do NOT have
- : >: a russian font and many of people do not speak russian.
- : >:
- : >When you post in English, do you feel you are doing
- : >some terrible disservice to all the people in the world who don't read
- : >English? If you didn't happen to know English, would you feel that you
- : >didn't deserve to use the Internet, and leave it to those of us who do?
- : >Did it occur to you that this person may not know English?
- :
- : For what it's worth, it is considered a breach of netiquette to post
- : non-English posts to newsgroups that are not specifically chartered for
- : that language.
- : --
- : bgeerdes@igs.com (Bruce Geerdes)
-
- Does the charter for THIS group specify English? If so, that's
- reasonable, and then I was wrong about the acceptability of the Russian
- posting here, though not for the reason that was complained about
- (postings that English speakers can't understand) but because it was a
- posting that didn't conform to the charter.
-
- However, if a specific group's charter doesn't mandate a requisite
- language, I think it's the height of arrogance to suggest that one
- particular language alone is proper in the absence of specific
- authorization of any other. Why would netiquette single out the speakers
- of one language for preferential treatment? Why would netiquette single
- out the non-speakers of one language for exclusion from the broad range
- of Internet facilities that the speakers of that language are able to
- take for granted?
-
- I have heard of people who think it's impolite to speak in a foreign
- language in public, such as when two people speak in Spanish to each other
- on a bus in New York. The implication is that people speaking privately
- but within earshot have the responsibility to enable you to understand
- what they're saying! This is sheer audacity. And what you are calling
- netiquette is just as much so.
-
- Where are all these charters anyway? rtfm somewhere?
-
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