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[Jonah Aragon <jonah AT opennic.org>]

You’re coming to the same conclusion as me, just via a different route. I 
don’t care what language people communicate in unofficially or off the 
record, I’m merely saying that all communication on official channels (i.e. 
proposals and votes, here on the mailing list) absolutely need to be 
conducted in English.

Jonah

> On Aug 7, 2018, at 11:17 PM, Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> -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
> 
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