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Originally Posted by rigdvr
whats the deal with the "pure" shit? If you get a french section and see a post obviously related to spearing dont open it.
Do you hold your breath differently because you are a "pure" diver?
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My proposal to create a French speaking section within the Freediving sub-forum is good and credible because it is FOCUSED.
I could appreciate Deeper Blue because I have a sufficient mastering of English which allowed me to read posts and to write some...
In particular I was so glad to receive in some hours answers to technical questions I asked about freediving coming from Australia, California, Finland,...
On the other hand I was surprised to see the extremely low number of my fellow citizens taking part in Deeper Blue and there is no comparable web site in french related to freediving...
Out of 5000 members I was able to identify no more than 3 other freediving compatriots on DB... There might be more French DB members "lurking" or "half lurking" (that is trying to read posts without clearly understanding them...)... Some of French freediving "lurkers" might have a reasonable understanding of English and would be able to post in English also, but refrain from doing so out of sheer linguistic shyness..
This linguistic barrier is something of a problem in particular on the occasion of
international freediving competitions taking place in France (for example last competition in Paris, where I played a role of linguistic interface)
What I propose to the webmasters of Deeper Blue is to "open a gate" to French speaking freedivers. Opening a French speaking section within the Freediving Sub-Forum would permit to some of my freediving fellow citizens to ask questions in French, which would be impossible in "normal" sections...
If I made this proposal this is because I feel that I can play an effective role of "linguistic" bridge between French speaking freedivers and the rest of the English speaking DB community.
I am no scuba diver and no spearhunter... I have not proposed what I cannot handle... But I do not forbid to a French speaking spearo to make an equivalent proposal regarding spear hunting...
Of course, there is a large common area between the "pure" freedivers and the spearhunters...
