Re: [ox-en] Englisch - nein! [was: Theses about the relation between the Oekonux ..]
- From: Benni Baermann <benni obda.de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:55:59 +0200
Hi!
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:45:19PM -0400, Graham Seaman wrote:
People write in approximations to a thread language (giving hybrids like
spanglish, portunol, etc), and drop into their own language if a section
of the mail is too hard to express in anything but their native language.
Some of the italians on the list say they use the same system on other
lists in Italy. The intention is to carry on with this policy even if
people from other languages (eg German!) join, though nobody knows yet if
that will work. The existing system seems to work well, though it often
results in a single mail containing parts in 4 different languages - the
benefit is that parts of an email that are in an unknown language are
often short, and not too much work to follow with a dictionary (or
can simply be ignored without losing the whole thread).
Wow, maybe this way the internet sometime create a new language ;-)
So I would like to see what happens if German people replied to English
emails in German, instead of feeling they must reply in English if the
original is English (basically, the way I sometimes write on the German
list). But it seems Germans feel this would be impolite? Can you think of
some way to carry out this experiment?
Das Problem ist, dass die meisten auf der deutschen Liste Englisch
können, aber ich nur von zwei Leuten auf der englischen Liste weiß,
die deutsch verstehen. Die Situation ist also nicht wirklich
symmetrisch und deswegen ist das Verhalten der Leute so schon ganz ok,
denk ich.
Grüße, Benni
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