From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-04-04T06:26:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Cultural Misinterpretations [was Re: Hard coded newline characters]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyle Johnson" <lyle@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:36 PM
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 ;)

Ha, very funny. :) But Guy has been using
more English lately I think.

Hal