[BRLTTY] Braille star 40: apology/explanation

[Cheryl Homiak]

Thanks Dave. Your explanation is very clear and I agree with it. I also did not realize that Mario was not a native English speaker but this possibility should always be taken into consideration when working on a list like this. It isn't that I took it for granted that only English-speaking people would be on the list; I do know of some here who are not natively English-speaking but for some reason I never made that connection with Mario. A good lesson for me of things to think about when I start to react to somebody's wording.


On Mar 31, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2017/03/31 at 08:47 -0500]

Well ... I'll add a bit. Both of you have been extremely helpful people for a 
very long time. While I did note his use of the verb "refuse", I really don't 
think it was meant in a mean way - it may simply have been a poorly chosen 
English word. Brltty has benefitted all along from support and contributions 
from those whose native language isn't English so lots of slack needs to be 
given.

In this particular case, I'm going to guess what he meant. I know that I myself 
have repeatedly expressed a desire to be accurate rather than to guess. It's 
impossible, after all, for any of us to give anything resembling a meaningful 
answer to "what might be wrong" without actual data. It's always best to 
capture a log (or, of course, to ask how best to capture the llog) right away.

Here's our dilemma: People tend to trust our answers. This implicit trust comes 
with a great responsibility 0- to try to never say anything that might be 
wrong. Being asked to guess, therefore, puts us in a position that none of us 
want to be in.

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