Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

[Graham Percival]

On 26-Jun-05, at 2:59 PM, Oddmund Åvik wrote:

> > >  I'd encourage any participant who has difficulty expressing
> > >  themselves in English to use the major language they're most
> > >  articulate in.  Most of us can probably follow well enough,
> > >  especially with the help of the occasional kind respondent supplying
> > >  a translation, and with the availability of machine translation
> > >  sites on the web.

Absolutely.

> Yes, and for those of us who understand French and German better than
> English it is a great help sometimes to get it in an other language...

... especially since the website is now translated in French and Dutch.

I see no reason to actively discourage emails in other languages.  It 
hasn't
been a problem so far -- if it becomes a problem, we can start asking
people to post in English.  But I think that everybody knows that
lilypond-user is primarily an English mailing list, so if somebody posts
in another language, it's almost certainly because they don't feel that
they can communicate in English.

Cheers,
- Graham