From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-04-04T05:36:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Cultural Misinterpretations [was Re: Hard coded newline characters]

Damphyr wrote:

> Most of the open source projects I've looked in from time to time tend 
> to have a more or less homogeneous community. To be honest it's the 
> first time I have had any contact with japanese people (even if it's 
> only reading stuff they wrote). There's one thing that I noticed though:
> Their language is clipped, concise, abrupt to the point where an 
> english native speaker would consider it rude. Most non-native english 
> speakers would be used to the american (or - even worse - british way) 
> of speaking which tends to add a bit more sauce to friendly (or 
> authoritative) explanations.

And then there are the posts from Guy (Decoux), who uses no words and 
only responds in Ruby code ;)