Spanish
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jul 10 06:50:59 EDT 2000
At 9:57 PM -0500 7/9/00, Braulio Barillas wrote:
>Dear Dr. Conrad:
>I'm list-member b-greek. I have a question. ¿Could does the Netiquette of
>b-greek permit write in Spanish, the answer of the post?
>Thank for answer me.
>Braulio Barillas
><mailto:parakal at quetzal.net>parakal at quetzal.net
>Guatemala city, Central America
>office phone (502)2-534135
>office fax (502)2-305385
In point of fact, the Netiquette of B-Greek has nothing to say about a
preferred language of discussion on B-Greek; English has been the "default"
language, but we have had occasional discussions either beginning or
continuing in some other language, including efforts by participants at
Koine Greek.
My own attitude, as I have expressed it more than once over the years
on-list, is that list-members ought to feel comfortable initiating any
discussion in any language they are most comfortable in expressing
themselves in. I have little difficulty myself at reading Spanish although
I certainly cannot write it. I think that if you or any other list-member
initiates a discussion in Spanish, your question or comment will be
understood or translated quickly enough by one (or more) list-members; if a
thread thus initiated runs very long, I think it's likely that it will
continue in English, but there is no good reason why the initiative may not
be taken in Spanish, French, German, Italian, theoretically in other modern
vernaculars, and I would personally wish that list-members not refrain from
posting for fear that they are violating any protocol by writing in the
language in which they feel most comfortable for expressing themselves
clearly.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University
One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
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