Ross G Caldwell
Diana said:I have to agree with Lee that those of us who do speak and write English should provide English translations with our foreign language quotes. The forum will become incomprehensible otherwise to the majority of the membership and the moderators and firemaiden cannot be expected to translate everything.
HOWEVER: This must NOT stop our French speaking members from posting. Their posts will be translated as they go along (with sometimes a slight delay if a French speaking person is not on the boards at the time.) This is a notice only for our English speaking members.
I agree. I will always try to provide a translation, even if on the fly or imperfect (especially from Latin).
Nobody should stop posting anthing, in any language. Somehow, a way will be found to translate it.
But French is the most common second language quoted here, and there is no shortage of French speakers to do the translating.
Ross