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Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1

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On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:05:09 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 12/13/2014 8:22 AM, Arwassa wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:29:13 +0100, Joerg Meier wrote:
>>> It seems like when someone with a German name starts talking with
>>> confidence about the content of a German post,
>>
>> I have no idea what language the post is in, other than that it's
>> clearly not English or I'd be able to understand it. Likewise I have no
>> idea what nationality anyone is,
> 
> The post was in German. And Volker Borchert is a German sounding name.
> 
> It fine that you don't know that - knowledge of German is not something
> that can be expected by all readers in cljp.
> 
> But if you don't understand a topic, then there is really not much point
> in participating in the discussion whether it is appropriate or not.
> 
>  >                          and as I am not a Republican I do not make
>  > assumptions about such things either.
> 
> Actually you did make an assumption. You assumed Volker could not read
> the message.
> 
....and he seems not to have heard of Babelfish, Google Translate or The 
Translation Guide, http://www.translation-guide.com/

The Translation Guide also has links to a range of language recognisers, 
should you not know what language you're looking at. The Xerox recogniser 
had no problem at all in deciding that the text was German.


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Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 the swingertz <news@theswingerz.net> - 2014-12-12 08:50 +0100
  Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Arwassa <arwassa@dimensionx.f00gley.net> - 2014-12-12 07:52 +0000
    Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2014-12-12 17:42 +0000
      Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Arwassa <arwassa@dimensionx.f00gley.net> - 2014-12-12 21:17 +0000
        Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2014-12-12 23:01 +0000
          Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Arwassa <arwassa@dimensionx.f00gley.net> - 2014-12-13 04:57 +0000
            Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2014-12-13 05:16 +0000
              Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Arwassa <arwassa@dimensionx.f00gley.net> - 2014-12-13 08:24 +0000
                Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-12-13 11:29 +0100
                Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Arwassa <arwassa@dimensionx.f00gley.net> - 2014-12-13 13:22 +0000
                Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-12-13 11:05 -0500
                Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-12-13 16:39 +0000
                Re: Tagebuch einer Auszeit - Tag 1 Arwassa <arwassa@dimensionx.f00gley.net> - 2014-12-15 22:35 +0000

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