Re: Where are "international" news group?
From: Bjoern Feuerbacher (feuerbac_at_thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
Date: 08/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:43:00 +0200
Franco wrote:
> I think that scientific language must be English because it has an easy
> grammar. But some people do not agree and they prefer to use their native
> language.
>
> American, English, Australian, Irish and so on, think that other people MUST
> learn English if they want to talk with other scientists.
>
> While other people learn English, Anglo-Saxon do not care to learn other
> languages. So, other people can talk only using English.
>
> We have a lot of news group that use English language as official language.
> And people that post on that news group think that are INTERNATIONAL news
> group.
>
> But I’m afraid that people is wrong. That people is wrong, because that news
> group use an international language, but Anglo-Saxon think that news group
> is OWN news group.
>
> So, we do not have a very INTERNATIONAL news group about every discipline or
> for any other subject.
>
> We have American ng, English ng, and so on. But we do not have an
> INTERNATIONAl ng.
>
> I know that most of people that post on these news group are from UK or from
> US. And they think other people as “foreigners”, so that news group would be
> an American or an UK ng.
>
>
> I remind that we have UK ng, French ng, US ng , German ng and so on.
>
> Now we need international ng. Where a person can feel just what he is and
> not an American, or a German or a French and so on.
>
> Do you think that is possible, or Anglo-Saxon will feel the OWNERS of
> every news group just because the official language is English??
>
> Franco
>
> Post script: if you answer can you say “where are you from?” So that we can
> understand if we are on an international ng or just on an Anglo-Saxon ng.
> Thank you!
> I'm an European citizen from Italy.
I'm a German scientist, and I think your argument above is nonsense.
It seems to consist of "Anglo-Saxons think that this news group is their
own, hence it is not international." But you have presented no evidence
at all for the first assertion!
Bye,
Bjoern
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