[Foundation-l] Introduction to the internal workings of thelanguage subcommittee

Sun Apr 13 22:56:59 UTC 2008

It would help if the person you were giving the tired old "zomg we  
have other languages than english" didn't live in Belgium.

-Dan
On Apr 13, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Michael Bimmler wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Brian McNeil
> <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
>> Gerard, a little bit of language you may not be aware of... "Hoi"  
>> is not
>> generally considered a polite greeting. I don't know what your  
>> native tongue
>> is, but for the vast majority of English speakers its use is  
>> generally found
>> in "Hoi You!" where it is a prelude to berating or otherwise giving  
>> someone
>> a piece of your mind.
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hoi#Dutch
>
> "An informal greeting acknowledging someone's arrival or presence;
> compare English hey, hi"
>
> Now really, even if the lingua franca of this mailinglist is English
> (for rather obvious reasons), I am quite offended if you start telling
> people that they may not write greetings in their native tongue. From
> his name, it might be rather apparent that Gerard is Dutch and even if
> not, one might first ask and assume good faith.
>
> Nothing personal here, but some English subscribers of this list
> should try to widen their horizon and reckon that there are other
> languages and other projects.
>
> Viele Grüsse,
> Michael
>
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