On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:18:37 pm Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
Il giorno gio, 02/04/2009 alle 15.33 -0500, Rajko M. ha scritto:
On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:14:53 pm Henne Vogelsang wrote: ...
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162457/linux_needs_crit ics. html
Sorry. To my defense: I'm no native speaker and complaining has not a negative touch in my native tongue (german).
I'm not too, but I have feeling that either word can have positive or negative connotations depending on context.
Right, but "not reading between the lines" is a requirement is a multi-cultural environment, and it is always a good habit IMHO. It becomes even more important on a mailing list, where for the nature of the medium we don't see each other.
If reading between lines means the same as in my native language (the one of those spoken across Adriatic see) ie. guessing what the other side wanted to say, it is just opposite in multicultural environment where many people use English as a common ground and as a second language. We have to guess a lot and guess good. The only thing that should not happen is to rush with retaliation if something appear as insult. People should not forget the fact that different cultures can have different interpretation for the same symbol, sometimes they are very opposite. Symbol, applied to our circumstances, can be word, phrase, graphic, signature. The danger for misinterpretation is not only between very different cultures, it hurts probably more where differences are subtile, and not very often. While in my language "vrijedan" is diligent, or precious, in Russian "вредний" it is exactly the opposite. When pronounced they sound similar like many other words. In some places people create "o" with fingers to say delicious, in other to say OK, and some do that to tell "zero value". Applied to people and actions it goes from approval to insult. It would be actually good to collect links about customs in other lands, post to wiki and link from Netiquette. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org