[OT] English? (WAS: Re: transparencia en windowmaker?)

Torbjörn Svensson <[email protected]>
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Thomas Jahns wrote:
| while it may be true that more and more people speak English I just
| today had the opportunity to talk to some people in German :-), so I'm
| quite convinced that English is not "the language spoken in the world
| today" but actually more than a 1000 languages are spoken every single
| day. Adapt to that.

Yes, I know that there are plenty more languages that are spoken IRL,
but I am talking about the ML. So, ASAIK wm-user is setup to be an
English ML.

| IMHO this mailing list is about helping users of wmaker, not about
| discriminating people who don't speak English and the OP does obviously
| qualify as a user of wmaker.

Yes, and that wasn't my point.

| In this particular case, the OP could perhaps easily have found a
| Spanish speaking community to take his question, but I think such does
| not exist for quite a lot of languages that are still spoken by
| millions of people. So while your statement may be correct for this
| particular post it's probably quite inconsiderate in the general case
| (in the context of which you stated it).

My point is just that he could have tried to write it down in English.
If you have followed this thread you do know that I am no native
speaker, and that I think that I am terrible in English so...  ;-)

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