As the sole person from the original executive committee still serving and as one of the original 14 subscribers to this list, I would like to clear up a myth that seems to have emerged in the last few days. Air-l has NEVER HAD A LANGUAGE POLICY. You are free to post to this list in any language you choose. That people have historically done so in English reflects, I am sure, the language of those first subscribers and the sense of English as lingua franca, but there has never been any mandate, dictate, edict, rule, or even suggestion from the executive committee that languages other than English are not to be used on this list. Nancy
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, William Bain <willronb@yahoo.com> writes:
(a wiktionary? sorry) to deal with this issue? Further to this, Beverly Trayner wrote about a carnival of blog and it struck me that possibly as a simple trial air-l (or for that matter air-la or both) could for a limited period (a week? a few days?) accept posts in a number of languages, for example the working languages used by the European
I only subscribe to air-l, but this would be lovely.
--SJ
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