SC - RE: Foreign language posts

[Decker, Terry D.]

Gunthar, I'll second Eden on this.  The untranslated material which comes
across this list is often from sources to which most of us have no access.
An English translation would be nice, but the quote from the original source
is the real meat of researching historical recipes.  I file these away with
appropriate notes for future reference.  If I believe I need the
information, it will get translated.

Bear

> Gunther wrote re a post of some recipes in German:
> 
> > Just a reminder...this post could possibly be useless to 98%
> > of the members
> > of this list. If a recipe is posted in a language other than
> > English, please
> > provide either a translation or a request for translation.
> > Otherwise this post
> > has no use for many members.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gunthar
> 
> OK Gunthar you're the list admin & have the right to lay that 
> down as a
> rule, but I'm going suggest that you think about it a bit more.
> 
> Those of us who have access to materials in thier original 
> languages don't
> necessarily have access to the time/energy to translate every 
> piece of data
> that might be relevant to a thread here, and I think it's 
> better to be given
> this info in it's original languague rather than not at all.  
> that way if
> it's relevant to a topic I care about I can get it 
> translated.  I don't need
> to read German myself, if I'm told that X's post is a 14th c. 
> German recipe
> for Noodle Kugel & I'm in the middle of doing research on 
> 14th c. Noodle
> Kugels you can bet I will find *somebody* to translate it for 
> me :-> and if
> I'm feeling nice I'll even come back to the list with that translation
> later...  When it comes to info on actual period recipes/food 
> habits, let's
> encourage exchange of info however we can get it, rather than 
> restricting
> it.
> 
> Eden - italian girl