Hi --

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:03:29AM +0900, dblack / superlink.net wrote:
> >
> > My view is: write and post whatever you want.  In the case of
> > non-English-language posts, the question (as it so often is) is "Who
> > would be the aggrieved party?"
>
> So, sending mail in HTML is OK by your standards? Eller att skriva p> ett underligt spréÌ med underliga tecken? ;)

I was talking specifically about posting to the Wiki.

> Well, my point is, I think new content should be in English, and
> translations should be made afterwards. So what if the original
> creator of the page wasn't fluent in English? It's a Wiki, there are
> always people ready to go in and clean up the mistakes. I don't think
> there are many more people ready to the translation though.
>
> I know I'd be pretty aggrievated if I had a problem and saw that the
> keywords I was looking for was right in the middle of a text I
> couldn't understand. :)

But, in fact, once you recover, you'll realize that you're no worse
off than if it weren't posted at all :-)  And someone else might be
better off.  So the effect is either neutral or good.


David

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