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Claudio González
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August 6, 2005
Question

Still no supervision in the French and Spanish forums?

  • August 6, 2005
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I forgot that threads are extremely short lived in this forum, and the discussion that really began within an unrelated thread, here

Pierre Courtejoie, "Shouldn't these links be removed as soon as possible?" #8, 27 Feb 2005 1:21 pm

has already gone to the Archives, where it is in danger of going to the limbus in the near future.

I still think that this is an important issue, and still wait to see any improvement in those forums showing that the messages by Pierre and myself on the subject have not fallen in a void. Although we both value and thank Neil Keller for his attempts to get some reaction in higher quarters, his attempts have unfortunately been a failure.

It is pathetic to see pages in the forums in Spanish with templates that are written in a mixture of English and a very bad Spanish. It is even more pathetic that JC stopped more than a year ago feeling authorized to introduce any non trivial change to improve this situation. The worst part is however to feel that there is no one listening, or at least willing to admit that there might be problems in those forums.

I feel very disappointed.
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    Claudio González
    Legend
    June 3, 2008
    Hi Jacob,

    Our off topic messages help in keeping this thread alive, now that it seems it is not even sure if the Spanish forums will survive the impending fusion.

    I think I do not fully agree with you. I think that sentences like "I feel ashamed for my rudeness" are completely equivalent to "Me avergüenzo de haber sido descortés". However, this is not the place to discuss such matters, and we are running the risk of having this thread made read only... :-) Which would be a pity, because I think it deserves to be kept for historical reasons.
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 2, 2008
    Claudio,

    It seems that there are important and intriguing differences in the expression of uncomfortableness in different languages.

    In English, any actual blame/shame is put on others, as in thanks to XXX, shame on XXX, or expressed more woolly, as in it is a great shame.

    Or the feeling is expressed as a suitable degree of regret, sorrow, or grief, which is no more an acknowledgement of being to blame than is the Spanish way.

    I post here to keep that other thread clear.
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 30, 2008
    Now that we have lost the spammer support, here is something not translated into Spanish, http://www.ppo.bugge.com/; there is something about it in French, though, http://www.eppoa.org/docs/PRESS_RELEASE_EPPOA_29.05.2008_fr.htm; the one that should translate it into Spanish is on maternity leave.
    Participating Frequently
    April 30, 2008

    Supervision has to be made in the French and Spanish forums.If the threads are extremely short lived in this forum then without a modification it cannot be improved.So we have to wait and see for its future results. 
    Martin Fowl

    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    April 25, 2008
    Check this person's other posts in here please.
    Participating Frequently
    April 25, 2008
    Supervision has to be made in the French and Spanish forums.If the threads are extremely short lived in this forum then without a modification it cannot be improved.So we have to wait and see for its future results.
    Martin Fowl
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    Claudio González
    Legend
    April 12, 2008
    Ah, but at least there is hope that you'll see results in the near future, as the matter depends only on you... :-)
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 12, 2008
    Thank you, Claudio. I did have an eye upon it, although I am struggling to finalize a paper I have been working on for more than 5 months.
    Claudio González
    Legend
    April 11, 2008
    It is not at all certain that these two localized forums will survive the incoming fusion, so I am beginning to wonder if it is worth keeping this thread afloat... :-(

    In any case, it is now a month and a day since the last post, and Jacob has not posted, so here I go... XD
    Claudio González
    Legend
    March 10, 2008
    Jacob, when someone in my closest circle of relatives and friends cannot remember a name or a telephone number, or cannot find his/her glasses, or has difficulties in getting in or out of a car, etc., s/he is told, perhaps a quarter jokingly, "well, we are no longer 50...".

    Or, as someone relatively famous and about my age answered when asked what he would do if he could live his life again, "No, I would by no means like to live my whole life again, but I wouldn't mind at all being 50 again!" (and of course I cannot remember who said this).