On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:57:12PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote: > Le Mercredi 18 Mai 2005 15:48, Andrew Suffield a écrit : > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:46:33PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote: > > > I agree that the previous mail was not very easy to read, nor written in > > > a great english. But I don't think that being fluent in english should be > > > a requirement to be treated nicely on a development list... You are lucky > > > enough to have this language as your mother tongue, consider this is not > > > the case of most people, and that expressing oneself on a technical > > > subject in a second language is not an easy thing. I hope you don't have > > > to be treated this way if one day english comes to not be the main > > > language used for development anymore. > > > > I really don't care. If somebody can't be bothered to write a mail in > > comprehensible English, they shouldn't expect anybody else to bother > > to read it. Most won't even bother to say why they didn't bother to > > read it. He's lucky that I did, and should be grateful for that. I > > *could* have simply ignored him. > > Yes you could have simply ignored him. That wouldn't changed anything for > you, > and would have prevented you from sounding agressive in addition to being > intolerant.
I really don't care what you think I sound like. > I'm glad most people didn't react this way when I was still learning english, > otherwise I would've been discouraged and would have never been able to speak > it properly. > > Thank you for "ignoring him" next time ;) You would rather have silence than know why you are being ignored? Then silence you shall have. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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