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<p>right, looks like we keep focusing on the pointless point.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/02/2020 09:36, Tomek wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:ddf5ea2c-91b6-7889-8049-02afc32d1095@disroot.org"><span
class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"> <span title=""
class="">Esperanto is a better choice because it takes much
less time to learn it than to learn English.</span></span></blockquote>
<p>I doubt this. you don't need Shakespeare or Chaucer for
technical English communication. just use a pidgin, easy enough.
hardly any grammar. you can even forget about articles. poor
native speakers, who have to cope with us!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/02/2020 09:36, Tomek wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:ddf5ea2c-91b6-7889-8049-02afc32d1095@disroot.org"><span
class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title="">I
just want everyone on the international list to use a
comfortable language</span></span></blockquote>
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I *am* comfortable with English, thank you for your consideration
and effort. if you want to know, I am comfortable, in decreasing
order, with Italian, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, German and
possibly Portuguese, (Maarten: I'm counting Dutch and German as if
it was two languages. :-P en dat grappig taaltje van jou, is het
Limburgs? zeer schattig hoor!) But Esperanto? no, I can't read
it, I tend to just skip to the end of the text. Polish? I made
an attempt, it's by far the most difficult language I have ever
met.</p>
<p>automated translations? they go through English, mostly, and
they fail terribly when doing two passes. some languages are
still beyond the reach of most translation algorithms. I would
NOT rely on them.<br>
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<p>so if you are concerned about comfort, you have my personal
preferences.</p>
<p>oh, right, sorry, I'm just one, not the community.<br>
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<p>do we want to choose a language here? imagine we do that, and we
use the Schutze method for it? do you think the outcome won't be
English? really?</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/02/2020 09:36, Tomek wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:ddf5ea2c-91b6-7889-8049-02afc32d1095@disroot.org"> <span
class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title=""
class="">This is the dictatorship of the majority.</span></span></blockquote>
<p>call it as you prefer. I guess this is how the democratic
decision process works. majority dictates. unless you prefer
oligarchies (minority dictates), or theocracies (priests dictate),
or plutocracies (money dictates)… right, you call OSM a
plutocracy, since the people who finance it are deciding for the
rest. but, hey, they are paying, and we may use it gratis, and
even make money with it. I don't feel like complaining you know!</p>
<p>MF<br>
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