: SC - Coconuts in Period

[RANDALL DIAMOND]

In a message dated 12/12/2000 9:41:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
LrdRas at aol.com writes:

> Us Englih speaking participants (who 
>  are the majority, BTW) simply delete the thread  or try to pick out what 
we 
>  can. :-) This does not happen often but no one ever seems to mind.

Okay, maybe I was misunderstood. I'm not xenophobic. I too even speak enough 
of several languages to get into trouble myself.

My point is... you can post anything you please and then say (or have told to 
you) that it's one thing or another. After translation you may or may not 
find that it's truly what you assumed. If anyone wishes to just throw data 
out there without knowing what it really is, I say go to it. I might even 
save some of it for translation myself.

But I can't shake the notion that it's sloppy research. Certainly I'm guilty 
of same, but I can't for the life of me think why someone would intentionally 
do it in a public forum. At least my gaffes were honest (albeit stupid), if 
unavoidable mistakes.

I apologize in advance to any I might have offended.

Corwyn