Re: translation needed

Forgive me for going WAY off in this email. I just felt the need to reply
:).

carlos_thompson@correo.javeriana.edu.co writes:
>Well.  Besides conlang and its offshoots: NGL and conculture, I've been
>throw syster list auxlang and I'm usual reader of some newsgroups.
>Actually
>I have not had much of a bad experience there or in any other list (except
>lack of postings in the ones I manage).

Well, I am on a mailing list devoted to gardening in Mediterranean
Climates (What most of California is like, as well of course, the
Mediterranean areas of Europe and Africa :)). and that list is very well
behaved. In fact many people have become friends, and often will have
visiting medit-planters over for a tour of their gardens.
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>Well, soc.culture.colombia is full of flames, idiots, flooders,
>crossposters, advertising... and it seams to be a better place than other
>soc.culture groups.  But then, that is something I expect and something I
>can live with and 80% of the threads I don't even bother to open (while I
>read almost every posting from conlang).
soc.culture.filipino is often full of flames, idiots, and wackos. Many
seem to have an agenda to make the Filipinos on the list angry by saying
racist things, or telling Filipinos how "backwards" they are. It seems a
lot of Singaporeans have problems with Filipinos. Maybe because a lot of
Filipinos find work there as maids, cooks, nannys, menial labor and are
looked down upon as lower class (oddly reminiscent of how some
Californians feel about the Mexican immigrants here).

Anyway to kind of bring this on the topic of languages, someone asked a
while back about Tagalog and Malay, and some Singaporean called Tagalog
"Another deviant offshoot from Malaysian.". Another poster then corrected
the person and told them they were both sub groups of the Austronesian
languages.
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>My ISP has some newsgroups, one of them devoted to humor.  People is
>friendly sharing the old and repeated jokes allong with some new material.
>But when someone post some advertising (or worse: some
>become-rich-by-surfing posting) or someone complains that people is
>sharing
>jokes instead of working, you get a series of posting of all colours and
>shapes trying to shutting up the perpetrator.
Well my school has usenet groups for its classes but most are for the
Social and Behavioral Sciences classes. But the California State
University system (Which my school is a part of) has a server and I can
get almost all of the usenet groups (even binaries).

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