Subj : Re: Deutsche User hier??? To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Blackie Beard Date : Tue Jan 18 2005 08:35 pm "Thomas Maeder [TeamB]" wrote in message news:m2d5w2d5t4.fsf@madbox2.local... > > [Followup-To: borland.public.cppbuilder.non-technical] > > "Blackie Beard" writes: > > > You're vicious. > > Maybe. :-) > > > > The poor guy is asking for help but doesn't speak English. > > That's hard to tell. He didn't write that. > > What he did is asking German users of this newsgroup to send him an > E-Mail message. > > Asking for help would sounds different IMHO. It doesn't depend on the > nationality of the author - or if it does, explaining why it does > would be a very wise idea. And I'd be glad to help, in every language > I can write (including German). Even if I'm not German, but Swiss. Oh well at least you're somewhat sensitive, and open to the remote possibility that he could have just been seeking help from someone that knows his language. Not that I'm German (OK - maybe 1/16th). > > And I don't like people to ask for E-Mail response. Yeah I understand where you're coming from. Sorry to spout off. > > > > No wonder the rest of the world hates us. > > I don't know if there is anybody in the world that "the rest of the > world" hate. Maybe you're not from the US, but most of us in the US feel that most of the rest of the world (with exception to a fraction of the population of the old commonwealth countries) hate us. Not that I want to start a philosophical discussion in a programming newsgroup!!! Sorry. BB .