h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just setting up a staging area for the celebration we plan in honor of being included in that venerable publication, The Post!

*starts chilling *

I'm the only one here yet... The curse of being in the wrong timezone... Oh well

*pours *

Hope I'm not too by the time anyone else arrives.

We were in the post!

Congrats - I saw this in the post just now, and it's so good I had to feature it on my home space. I'm off to read the other one now!

-Lucinda (grabbing a glass of wine as she leaves the room... )

Thanks for stopping in Rather small party, eh? Oh well...

So glad you enjoyed it... Seemed timely enough Hopefully more people read it - the promo at your space will help I'm sure

Well done!

* grabs another glass of wine *

Thank you, thank you... We've and and all manner of too, if you're interested.

Very glad you enjoyed it

*makes goodie bags*

*passes out goodie bags containing autographed editions of the story and *

* gets hold of one of them *

* starts munching *

I'm upse that I can never post in a non-english language if a moderator cannot understand it. I think a good joke to play on them would be to write something harmless in atrocious English and moderate yourself.

true...

but what about the other side: take your favourite website in your country (UK or other, doesn't matter) and see a couple of people from China / Greenland / XYZ-istan demand the right to post in their local idiom, with you paying the bill for moderation.

Which of course doesn't take into account why there's payed moderation in the first place.

Wouldn't it encourage people to learn more languages so as to understand them?

Sure!

We used to have a German Class here in the last pre-BBC days which was evolving into something!

An I was using it to practice my French.

What about Latin?

Think it all boils down to the British monoglot (sp?) system and the fact that everybody else on the planet speaks their language, at least to some extend. As Ben pointed out in the Announcements thread F615?thread=191616&latest=1#p2152313 yesterday:

"It is understandably hard for any northern european to credit that an organisation like the BBC does not - and indeed can not - make the requirement to speak one or more foreign language a requirement for employment."

In Germany you wouldn't get any job (apart from sorting items into supermarket shelves) without at least basic capabilities in another language. Er.. sometimes not even that because you might need Turkish or Greek to make yourself clear.

In public schools in the US, a second language, usually Spanish, is mandatory.

Hey, we're misusing this thread How about following the link above?

* grabs another bag *

TY

I've read the above. I helped to write it, love.
If only there was a magic word that would make a post or entry un-moderatable.