Dear Dennis
It happens to me sometimes that I read something and feel this is the thing I
wanted to say, I only didn't know it.
The problem of which mails are apt to show up on the list, seems to exist on
many listserv's. My daughter who is a student Slavonic languages has a list
about Slavology. The same discussion started on this list too, but disappeared
immediately. A Dutch slavist was irritated by what he said was too much small
talk. The first half of the mail he wrote in Enlish and the second half in
Dutch, to show how it feels to be excluded. The reaction of those language
freaks was unexpected. One of them said he did want all members, who did not
speak any "Germanic" language next to English, contacted him to see how much
they could understand of that mail. With that the discussion stopped.
I know this story can be useful for us too, only I don't know how. Can you tell
it to me?
Ida Kamphuis
Dennis Greene <[log in to unmask]> schreef:
> I was going to stay out of this discussion this time, but
> being short on will power and long on opinion here I am
> again.
> It falls to those who perceive a need
> for a "no nonsense" list, to set one up. They will achieve
> little by demanding that the opposite camp leave and set
> up their own lists, the opposite camp don't perceive the need.
>
> This posting is not intended as a comment on the rightness
> or wrongness of either point of view. It is intended as a
> piece of practical politics, in the forlorn hope of seeing the
> end of this cyclical argument.
>
> Dennis.
>
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