Am 12.07.2014 17:34, schrieb Titanus Eramius: > I'm sorry, but this thread seems to have taken a detour. Being a Dane, > I run into these kinds of responses all the time, simply because I find > it counter-productive to sugarcoat things when writing English.
me too, german native speaker >>>>>> Is it wrong to ask questions? Is 'why' not allowable ? I guess it >>>>>> is because you say so! > > No, because it's already said in the docs, at Wikipedia, Google, ... > Why should all this be explained again, when lots and lots of pages > already covers it? And why is that not OK? Docs and Wikipedia are not the same as asking for practical expierience especially in case of new options, Wikipedia says how things are in theory but not that often explains pitfalls docs are mostly fine for expierienced people understanding a lot of things because of their context but as starting point difficult > Yeah well, this should go both ways, but clearly does not. I would > always prefer a short, no bullshit / sugarcoated answer, but apparently > someone has concluded we can't use those, because someone gets upset well, that's the same on any english mailing-list
