From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt Date: 2003-05-14T02:45:48+09:00 Subject: Re: FAQ - language used for postings? Saluton! * Dave Thomas ; 2003-05-13, 00:03 UTC: >> I question that is not answered by the FAQ: What languages are >> acceptable for postings? > > Instead, I think each poster needs to consider how best to > communicate with the audience here. If you have a question and you > post it in Portuguese, then you cut down your potential set of > answerers. However, you're still likely to find a number of people > who can understand and answer you post. I do *not* want to railroad Postings in any of the languages I did list but I see the problem that people who are no native speakers of English sometimes face the problem of not being able to describe their problem in English while they are able to describe it in their own language. What I wish to know what languages people on the list could make sense of. An answer could look like this: ===================================================================== On 11.11.2003, nomen nominandis wrote: > Ich suche die Antwort auf das Leben, das Universum und all das. In English: "I am looking for the answer to life, the universe, and all that." At the moment the value has been estimate to be 42.8(9) and is known to be an integer. It looks as if the correct value is 43 but further research is necessary - it may still be 42. So long, Michael Maus, Panterra H�chstleistungsrechenzentrum AG ===================================================================== Gis, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt -- e-mails that do not contain plain text, are larger than 50 KiB, are unsolicited, or contain binarys are ignored unless payment from your side or technical reasons give rise to a non-standard treatment.