I would not say "American" - there are many pepple who's mother tongue
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 think

silence is agreement at all, and it never was the norm either unless

it was called many times for consent.

often, I ignore the things that do not make sense or worth to bother

my precious time - and I know many of my colleagues have similar

attitude. unfortunate, maybe, but we are busy in doing our own work

in professional manners and those things go outside of our cotrol, let

them be. we have no luxury of time to waste.

izumi

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