From: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Bug reports in English only? (Re: OT: spam in this newsgroup)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:22:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <shadr3ewl9.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87elggi5m7.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (miles@gnu.org's message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 12:39:45 GMT")
miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) writes:
> So in a general sense, it's still a better bet for someone to use
> terribly broken english than some other language, and the message shown
> has to emphasize that;
I can't tell you numbers but my feeling is many a lot users will stay
away from sending reports because of the language issue. You may say,
there are already enough reports.
> I'm a bit worried that anything less strong that the current message
> would result in people thinking `well, _maybe_ someone understands
> language Foo, and my english isn't very good, so...'
Probably. Okay, I don't want to insist.
> [Note that if someone's english _isn't_ understandable, then it's
> often easy to see where they sent their message from, and for a speaker
> of that country's language to ask for a clarification, if they happen
> to be reading the list -- and if there is no such speaker reading, well,
> the reporter isn't any worse off!]
Why can't you say this instead of the current message? Whenever I've
got to file a report I feel offended a little bit by the current wording
(okay, it's better than it was on 20.x). Reading the message again
just now I think it can stay as is; obviously it's me who must change
his mind ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-13 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-26 8:20 OT: spam in this newsgroup Ralf Fassel
2002-04-27 16:17 ` elf
2002-05-08 10:47 ` Dan Jacobson
2002-05-10 14:45 ` elf
2002-05-12 22:54 ` Dan Jacobson
2002-05-13 4:37 ` Bug reports in English only? (Re: OT: spam in this newsgroup) Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-13 7:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-13 12:39 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-13 18:22 ` Karl Eichwalder [this message]
2002-04-29 0:12 ` spam in this newsgroup Karl Chen
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