[Duo2400] Foreign Language Posting & efficiently pertinent messages

[Doug Rosser]

Thanks Robert for the insight -
I work for an American company but am one of those English speaking foreign
Australian devils.
No trouble with understanding your reply - I'm not confident enough of my
written French to reply in kind, - but I do find it strange that speakers of
English as a1st language are unlikely to learn a second or third language.
On topic, I have a newly acquired, from e-bay(.au) of course, 2300c which
I'm having fun integrating into my non-mac  based hame LAN - a great leaning
experience and a cute machine - now if I can just work out why the network
connection is so slow ....
Merçi
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert R. Daniel" <rrdaniel2 at mac.com>
To: "Duo/2400 List" <DuoList at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: [Duo2400] Foreign Language Posting & efficiently pertinent messages


> Just a slight addendum in English to my attempt to
> respond wittily in French to a message about foreign
> language postings.
>
> Paul is right in that it is abusive for folks to
> post exceedingly long and, perhaps, inappropriate
> messages to the list if those messages are not really
> pertinent to the core interest and -- if I may --
> the "culture" of the list.  The long "Hallo Leute"
> posting does not seem to have been a pertinent or
> appealing message for most folks on the list. So
> it may not have been most appropriately addressed
> to the list as a whole.
>
> What provoked my reaction in French was the notion
> that foreign language postings are entirely inappro-
> priate.  They are no more appropriate or inappropriate
> per se than other rambling, off-topic, quote-heavy,
> silly, ridiculous and/or flaming posts.
>
> Finally, I must admit my bias:  I am a professor of
> (you guessed it) French.  I also consider myself a
> cosmopolitan citizen of the world and I wish more
> Americans were cognizant of, sensitive to and, most
> of all, friendly toward foreign cultures and languages,
> including points of view and ways of expressing and
> seeing things that are radically different from
> typical American thinking.  Being an enthusiastic
> foreign-language speaker in the U.S. is a bit like
> being a Mac Addict in a PeeCee World.
>
>
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