Pero espero que, como estudiante de econom'ias, si hablo igl'es y
no en frases matematicos, entonces no utiliza la lengua normal de este
professi'on.
And if that makes little sense to an individual fluent in Spanish
-- that's the hazard of the rule that Jozsef proposes. On a mailing list
with traffic as light as wsn, someone less fluent in English than one of
the other widely used languages could post a message in the language they
were most comfortable with, followed by their effort to translate, and
fellow subscribers who observed a problem area in the translation could
e-mail suggested improvements. I recall a discussion on rainforest loss
on ecol-econ in which I was able to assist someone in translating a
contribution from Spanish to English, despite the lamentable state of my
Spanish. Given a sufficiently large minority with some command of the
different languages in currency, I wonder whether it might be possible to
develop public arenas in 'cyberspace' where multiple languages can
co-exist more comfortably than at a conference.
Virtually,
Bruce McFarling, Knoxville
brmcf@utkux.utk.edu
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