Re: [ox-en] Englisch - nein! [was: Theses about the relation between the Oekonux ..]
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:25:02 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Benni Baermann wrote:
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.
Wow, maybe this way the internet sometime create a new language ;-)
We're calling it 'the Babel Academy' :-)
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.
OK, so when there aren't many people who understand a language at all the
ones who do have to help out a bit. Provide a bit of context in their replies,
and so on. Maybe it isn't symmetrical between English-German now, but with
time people might learn more. Yesterday (in the real world) Chris said he
didn't understand a word of German - I wonder if he could join in this
thread?
Graham
Grüße, Benni
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