Re: For French speakers only
- From: Mladen Gogala <mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:00:57 -0500
My personal preference is that English should stay lingua franca
of this list.
(If anyone wonders, the irony is deliberate. Lingua franca == French)
On 03/08/2004 09:53:39 AM, "Goulet, Dick" wrote:
> Either that or they'd improve their English skills. Guess I'm going to have
> to find that Western European keyboard.
>
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: For French speakers only
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> Doing so would somewhat limit the number and quality of replies they receive.
>
> I personally would be required to use babelfish.altatvista.com.
>
> Jared
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> "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
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> 03/07/2004 06:15 AM
> Please respond to oracle-l
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> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc:
> Subject: RE: For French speakers only
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> Stephen,
>
> You and your countrymen are free to use French here if you
> like. Mine is VERY rusty, but the exercise would be useful.
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 6:57 AM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: For French speakers only
>
>
> All right, I am posting this in English because I find impolite to post
> in a language that the majority doesn't understand, and all French
> speakers on this list also speak English, but it only concerns those of
> you who feel more comfortable in French than in English.
> I have over the years met many good DBAs (many mediocre ones too, but
> this is another topic) whose command on English was sufficient for
> reading the docs but a bit 'light' to participate on this kind of list
> as actively as they might otherwise have. I have often advertised this
> list, but with little success amongst most French speakers. I guess that
> many on this list have made the same observation.
> I have just created a list named oraclefr on freelists.org (just like
> oracle-l).
> You subscribe to this list by sending email to
> oraclefr-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
> interface.
> I don't expect the traffic to be huge, especially in the beginnings, so
> I guess that it will be easier to subscribe to both oracle-l and
> oraclefr than to oracle-l and the lazydba list (I dare hardly mention
> the off-topic list). Please advertise widely, especially to people who
> are English-shy.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Stephane Faroult
> Oriole
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