Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 23 Nov 97, Bill Larsen wrote: <snip> > I enjoy the newsgroups, even the people that go off topic. Their > enthusiasm is contagious. But I do not enjoy some of the snide cross > cultural comments I have read. Uh, this is not a newsgroup, Bill. Also, you may misinterpret when you talk of snide cross cultural comments. Perhaps some, but by no means, many and certainly not serious. What is different here is the sheer number of posts among folk sharing a niche interest. This allows us to "get a handle" on our brethren rather quickly and in some detail. What happens from then on is the type of exchanges that are quite normal among "family", and believe me, this *is* family. In the bunch of lists to which I subscribe (admittedly most are photographic), English is the default language for the same reason that it has become that in most international commercial and political endeavors. Nothing is forever, however, and when the US is toppled as the leading power in the world, then assuredly, citizens of the US will have to get off their butts and learn the language of the next anointed. - -- Roger Beamon Naturalist & Photographer mailto:beamon@primenet.com When a public offical accepts a gift, he dissolves the pearl of independence in the vinegar of obligation. -- Henry Fountain Ashurst