Foreign language

[Frank Cornew]

All right. Seems that my below attempt to avert a flame war didn't 
work. At any rate, it has been an amusing interchange so I'm not sure 
that it could be classified as a flame 'war' per se, maybe a flame 
'food fight'?

Anyhow... a few more comments...For those who have been flinging 
stuff at the USA, please note that the original complaint comes from 
a CANADIAN (xxx.ca) address. This in addition to the list's Canadian 
origins. Furthermore, note that I'm based in Mexico (xxx.mx). 
Finally, I would like to reiterate that the 'offending' posting seems 
to be a chain letter, a form of semi-spam.

As commented on the list, babelfishing it does seem to churn out a 
rather amusing result.

While Spanish may be a bit complicated for discussing computer issues 
due to the use of Spanglish and variations in nomenclature from 
different localizations, it is most excellent (especially the Mexican 
version) for describing this type of absurdity. Regrettably, such 
descriptions rely on barnyard humor, so I'm not going to share them 
on the list, thus avoiding further excitement. Sorry Brandy.

Saludos de Mexico
F.

>Before the flame war gets going, do note that the posting in German 
>that Paul refers to seems to be a bit of Spam/chain letter sort of 
>thing and may be unintentional.
>
>  As far as 'foreign' language is concerned, seems to be that the 
>occasional  (2-3 over the past year) non-english posting has been 
>preceded by profuse apology for not using english. Also have seen 
>profuse apology for bad english (when in fact the person did quite 
>well in expressing themselves) in cases when someone obviously does 
>not use english as their primary mode of communication.
>
>Suggest we all ignore the complaint and get on with our lives.
>
>F.
>
>
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>>Message-Id: <l03130306ba1c0bc03373 at DialupEudora>
>>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:24:54 -0800
>>From: Paul Nelson <artworks at victoria.tc.ca>
>>Subject: [Duo2400] Re: FW: Hallo Leute,
>>
>>At 7:15 PM +0100 12/10/02, Peter Diehl wrote:
>>  >----------
>>  >Von: "Scharpf Thomas" <thomas at scharpf-web.de>
>>  >Datum: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:30:55 +0200
>>  >An: tommoni at scharpf-web.de
>>  >Betreff: Hallo Leute,
>>  >
>>  >Hallo Leute,
>>  >
>>  >kennt Ihr den Rundbrief schon? Was auch immer man von solchen
>>  >Rundbriefen halten mag, ich finde er hat einen sehr wahren Kern!
>>  >
>>  >Gr=FC=DFe von Thomas
>>
>>	I don't appreciate foreign language items on this list.  Am I the
>>only one?
>>Paul