Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

> I have witnessed, hundreds of times, conversations with person A speaking
> one language and person B replying in a different language.  Encouraging
> such a procedure here would seem better than driving away those who are
> not comfortable presenting a question in English.

We certainly do not want to drive people away.  However, I also want
to avoid non-English conversation as much as possible.

I think we have an unwritten policy here of replying in English as
well as the original language on non-English posts, with a summary of
the question in English.

Jan.

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