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Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English


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  • From: "Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>
  • To: "discuss" <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English
  • Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:05:42 -0400 (EDT)

One of them asked if the word was Austrian or German. Google Translate does
not offer an option for Austrian, and one of the votes was German for "potato
salad"

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-Dan Q


On Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:55:18 +0000, gp AT gparent.net wrote:

> Regardless if the people voting in other languages were being silly or
> not, I think it would be a good idea.
>
> On 2018-08-07 18:50, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A number of individuals are voting on proposals in other languages
> > (Austrian? German?). Not everyone can speak these languages, and I've
> > never seen languages other than English spoken on the list. I don't
> > know how to process these votes, though I'm hoping someone else can
> > before time runs out (or until someone translates them for Jonah and
> > I). But in the future, unless the demographics in this shift into
> > speakers of another language, who can reverse saide policy, we should
> > require voting in English, with votes in other languages considered
> > invalid.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > --
> >
> > -Dan Q
> >
> >
> >
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