Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:59 PM 5/11/99 -0400, "Gary D. Whalen" <whalen@circle.net> wrote: > I am so tired >of people > coming into newsgroups and acting rude. What is it about the >internet that brings out the worst in people? > > Gary: Other than just plain rude people, some replies are just a result of the international flavour of the Internet. I think a lot gets lost in the translation. Many languages do not have the niceties of the English language. An example I was give one while in Germany was how rude their people could seem if you used literal translation of otherwise proper conversations. For example a German literally says "Give me beer." when he orders a beer rather than "Can I have a beer please?". We have people on our list to which English is not their primary language and as a result, they sometimes come across as rude or pompous because of poor translation of what they mean to say. On the other hand, people who have English as a mother tongue, have no excuse for being rude as you described. Regards, Robert