On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:18:26AM -0400, Paul Abrahams wrote:
Generally speaking it's inconsiderate to berate people for poor English. But on the other hand, someone who writes English poorly can't reasonably expect others to put a lot of work into understanding his (or her) posts.
Paul
I disagree. English is perhaps the lingua franca of the net but for many people it is not their first or even their second language. I think it is worth making the effort to understand what someone is trying to ask and to help if you can. There is a whole world of Linux users outside of America you know. Since it is well known that Americans come bottom of all surveys concerning the learning of other languages they might at least try to understand other people's attempts at explaining themselves in english. -- Regards Cliff