Hello Bj”rn,

On Monday May 27 2019 13:40, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> you have repeatedly stated that articles in other languages
 MvdV>> than English are welcome.

 BF>    (I missed this in my previous comment.)

 BF>    Repeatedly is not true.

IIRC it was more than once.

 BF> But when the zone wars ran at it's peak, I said at some point, that I
 BF> was open for articles written in a non-English language just to watch
 BF> the reaction.

 BF> Alas, I don't remember if any of you who suggested this actually made
 BF> such a contribution,

I submitted at least one article in Dutch and it was accepted. (and it got us
some flack from "across")

So now you are telling met that you enticed me to throw oil on the fire of the
zone war instead of just demonstrating that Fidonews need not be limited to
English?

 BF> but now that the zone wars are over and done with,

Are you sure? Not so long ago we all thought the cold war was over. Now with
megolomanic leaders in both the White House and the Kremlin, we know better. 
:(

 BF> there's no need for such an experiment. Now we are (almost) all one
 BF> big family, speaking the same language.

"All speaking the same language"? You really live in a bubble. The assumption
that everyone in Fidonet speaks English is simply wrong. In the haydays of
Fdionet with 1200 Dutch nodes and 5500 registered Dutch points, there were many
participants that never ventured into the so called "international" areas
because their English was not good enough for that. From the few diehards that
now remain in R28, nearly all of them probably speak English, but I would not
be surprised if in Germany there is still a significant fraction of paticipants
that have not enough English skills to participate in English echos. Same for
Latin America. The ZC4 does not speak English... And then there is Eastern
Europe...

No, we may be one big family, or at least I'd would like it to be, but the
assertion that we all speak the same language is plain wrong.

 BF> I still prefer e.g. 'humour' over 'humor' though, but that's just me.
 BF> 8-)

No, not just you. I too prefer "the Queens's English" despite the fact that I
am not a royalist.

Cheers, Michiel

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