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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

I think that's a really bad idea, people should be allowed to communicate in 
whatever language they want. It's just the proposals and votes that should be 
in English, and when I come up with the proposal for this, the text would be 
limited to proposals and votes.

Spilling over into your "yea/nay for the whole package only" proposal thread, 
perhaps looking at a situation like this (English for 
proposals,votes,discussions) can encourage the same line-item yea/nay which 
successfully standardized our voting and discussion policies?

For example, the ongoing vote on invalidating the previous contested vote 
originally included Jonah's not-so-popular rushed-in addon. This is too often 
how US Congress works (think how REAL ID was unpopular until it passed as an 
addon to the Hurricane Katrina emergency funding bill). Limiting ourselves to 
this is a bad idea, especially given our past successes with line-item 
yea/nay.

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-Dan Q

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 19:59:53 -0500, Jonah Aragon <jonah AT opennic.org> wrote:

> 
> That being said, this proposal should require that not only votes, but all 
> discussion on this list be in English. This is an English speaking 
> community, and it should be required on all official communication to 
> prevent confusion. 
> 
> Jonah
>