Re: NOBODY SPEAKS DUTCH - << Not true. Almost everyone in the Netherlands speaks it. >>

[Bolle Zijde]

Sir None Of Your Business <paul...@smxbox.com> wrote in
news:vuelh25ikq2pn4nud...@4ax.com:

> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:50:06 GMT, Sherlock Holmes
> <Sher...@bakerstreet.com> wrote:
>
>>Perhaps we should take this one stage further. Although historically
>>the common language of Usenet was English, this is obviously no longer
>>the case, so perhaps in future if those who post programs in English
>>were to include "EN" in the heading, it would encourage the posters
>>of programs in other languages to return the courtesy.
>
> While this is a nice idea. I think you could still say that English is
> the major language of the posts, and as such shouldn't need to be
> identified as being English, but posters of other language-posts
> should make this known.
>
> noyb

I agree with you both, including "EN" in the header could encourage
others to state the language in which they post, groups whitout
a language indicator (DE, NL, FR or BE) can be considered
English spoken.
A few years ago the same issue was discussed and some things have
improved, others didn't (nfo-files for instance)
The discussion focussed mainly on FTD and an effort was made to
educate posters using FTD, this failed.

I'm willing to take part in this discussion again, however not in
this group because it is a binaries group and the retention of
this group on my server is insufficient to properly take part
in any discussion.
Please follow up to alt.soc or suggest another empty text group.

Bolle Zijde
and yes, I'm Dutch