Re: [OT] Language(No programming language ) question

["Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:11:46 +0100, Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>  
wrote:

> The Sunday 27 January 2013 09:50:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote :
> > On 27/01/13 00:53, John Hasler wrote:
> > >> ...only English is acceptable on this list.  People do occasionally
> > >> post here in other languages, but they are in error in so doing.
> > >
> > > They are not in error: there is no rule against it.
> >
> > Rubbish: At http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
> amongst
> > other things:
> <snip>
>
> Yes, but if you go there:http://lists.debian.org/users.html the title  
> for say
> debian-user-french is: debian-user in French
> so one should write in french.
> If you look at debian-user, the title is: Help and discussion among users
> of Debian,
>  so there is no mention of which language to use on this list. I guess  
> this
> is a bug, but strickly speaking, one could use any language here and
> not breaking the code of conduct.
> Thierry

And the context, that there are user lists for different languages, e.g.  
Spain and that English is _the international language_ (Even strange  
people, who guess Esperanto is an international language, should notice,  
that there's a list for Esperanto) makes e.g. Spanish people guess, that  
this list is for all languages?

Perhaps some are uneducated or intellectually disabled, it's ok if they  
are mistaken, but I suspect most who use this list in another language are  
simply blasé. They simply ignore it.