Also agreed. However the powers that be withing ICANN
don't necessarly share your take on silence. I do to a degree,
in that I dismiss nothing except what I am not aware of of course,
and believe no one is necessarly "Silly". I certainly don't
believe anyond on this forum is or has stated anything that is
silly or deserves being dismissive about.
"Thompson, Darlene" wrote:
Regards,Speaking personally, I certainly agree. When I am silent it means that I don't really care about the topic at hand or am dismissing it as being silly. It *most definitely* doesn't mean consent.DI would not say "American" - there are many pepple who's mother tongue
From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of Izumi AIZU
Sent: Mon 2/18/2008 8:46 AM
To: Veni Markovski
Cc: At-Large Worldwide
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Give it a break
is almost English outside the USA. So I would rather avoid making it
"American", Veni, which may lead to misinterpretation and misunderstandings.I mean, Singapore, (some folks in India, but not all), Malaysia to some extent,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, oh and England, and some African countries...Anyway, how to interprete silence is a difficult task and we do not have
consensus on that, that I can say for sure.izumi
2008/2/18, Veni Markovski <veni@veni.com>:As another non-native English speaker, I agree with Izumi. The US-centric perception that if someone is silent, then they agree with the American point of view is just that - a perception, but not a reality. In many cultures we'll stay quiet as a sign of disagreement.
veni
On Feb 18, 2008 3:53 AM, Izumi AIZU <iza@anr.org> wrote:as an old time at ALAC, and non-English speaking people, I don't thinksilence is agreement at all, and it never was the norm either unlessit was called many times for consent. often, I ignore the things that do not make sense or worth to bothermy precious time - and I know many of my colleagues have similarattitude. unfortunate, maybe, but we are busy in doing our own workin professional manners and those things go outside of our cotrol, letthem be. we have no luxury of time to waste. izumi
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