On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 01:14:52PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >Ha Ha. I heard exactly that from my English teacher several weeks ago. > >For myself, this is cultural difference too. I would never use such > >wording in my native language. (Disclaimer: I'm not targeting the > >original thread, but disagreement in general) > +1 > nobody i know in real life talks that way, really nobody, never In addition to being a possible difference in culture or language, there's another important difference: email provides very a limited form of communication, with none of the nuance of an in-person conversation. It is extra-easy to misinterpret, and impossible to gauge the reaction of other parties until they actively respond. And, often, discussions here don't have the supporting framework of trust built in a real-life friendship — the other person is just words on the screen. So, it's valuable to work extra hard at a collaborative communication style, even if it doesn't come naturally. And, really, this is a learned behavior in any culture — it's not something humans are necessarily good at automatically. But we _can_ be, and I want Fedora to be a shining example of it. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
