The Sunday 27 January 2013 10:23:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote : > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:11:46 +0100, Thierry Chatelet <tchate...@free.fr> > > wrote: > > The Sunday 27 January 2013 09:50:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote : > >> On 27/01/13 00:53, John Hasler wrote: > >> >> ...only English is acceptable on this list. People do occasionally > >> >> post here in other languages, but they are in error in so doing. > >> > > >> > They are not in error: there is no rule against it. > >> > >> Rubbish: At http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > > > > amongst > > > >> other things: > > <snip> > > > > Yes, but if you go there:http://lists.debian.org/users.html the title > > for say > > debian-user-french is: debian-user in French > > so one should write in french. > > If you look at debian-user, the title is: Help and discussion among users > > of Debian, > > > > so there is no mention of which language to use on this list. I guess > > > > this > > is a bug, but strickly speaking, one could use any language here and > > not breaking the code of conduct. > > Thierry > > And the context, that there are user lists for different languages, e.g. > Spain and that English is _the international language_ (Even strange > people, who guess Esperanto is an international language, should notice, > that there's a list for Esperanto) makes e.g. Spanish people guess, that > this list is for all languages? > > Perhaps some are uneducated or intellectually disabled, it's ok if they > are mistaken, but I suspect most who use this list in another language are > simply blasé. They simply ignore it.
No, I guess most of the people writing in their native language on this list do it because they have subscribed to this list and the one in their language, and they make an error. it happen to me both ways, french on the english list and vice-versa. It even happen that I answered a question in french on the french list, in english. When one is switching language very often (many time in a hour) well, sometimes things dont come out the way they should!!! Thierry
