Michael Berch writes:
> Personally, I don't think languages have anything to do with regional
> distributions/hierarchies. There are German speakers (and French
> speakers and Finnish and Japanese and whatever) here in California. I
> don't see the parallel between "something only relevant to people in
> Germany" and, say, "something written in German". It depends *what*
> was written in German: an article, in a sports newsgroup,
> discussing the latest Monchen-Gladbach v. Karlsruhe football match
> might not be of global interest, but an article in German about
> commercialization of the Olympics might be.
I have to agree. I have carried articles in French in
rec.arts.movies.reviews and the rec.arts.sf.reviews FAQ says:
> For works in a foreign language, reviews either in that language or in
> English will be accepted. If none of the moderators is able to read
> the language in which a review is written, we will pass it for posting
> with a disclaimer stating that none of us was able to read it and we
> are not responsible for content.
What's the big deal?
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