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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4703 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 193 of 197 06 March 2014 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thank you for that reminder. Discussing Indian languages it is almost impossible to
avoid religion and politics entirely, but it is possible to remain polite. I meant no offense to Russian members (which was why I gave equal grief to Europe), but it is obvious even to me that someone could be offended by what I wrote. For that, I apologize. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5855 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 194 of 197 06 March 2014 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I see your post only slightly concerns me (since you quote me). I'd like to point out that you left the following out:
I've never participated in aggressiveness in this forum, quite on the contrary. I generally ignore the bickering, to be frank. Anyway, sometimes the answer to the original question is "politics". I think this is one such case (partly, at least). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3876 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 195 of 197 06 March 2014 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Surely this qualifies as a personal attack? Mods: I lodge a complaint. Edited by Gemuse on 06 March 2014 at 6:24pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5326 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 196 of 197 06 March 2014 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thank you for you kind responses. :-) Yeah, there are certain times when language learners can't avoid politics, or at least not completely. For example, if you don't know where the local political "minefields" are, you can really get into a lot of trouble. And sometimes, certain cultural reactions make far more sense once you know some recent history. But still, politics have an unfortunate way of making people angry, and of drowning out all other subjects of discussion. So while it might be OK to have an occasional post about "What language learners really ought to know when visiting country X," please let's try to avoid dragging every country's angry debates into HTLAL. :-)
If you wish to let us know about something, please see the "Report" button. However, in this case, I've already asked people to please avoid angry political discussions in this thread. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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