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Originally Posted by Stephan Whelan
As you admit yourself there are a small number of French speaking people on the forums.
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Hi Stephan,
Thanks for your quick reaction... I perfectly understand your prudence ; any new thing has to be assessed, the advantages and the inconveniences as well...
Nevertheless, it would be interesting to assess the statement above more precisely...
I said I noticed 3 active French speaking members on DB who have excellent mastering of English language...
Probably out of the 5000 DB members there might be much more who were able to register in English, to read and understand posts in English, but were assigned to a position of unwilling "lurkers" out of sheer linguistic shyness...
I was struck by following paradox : many French freedivers know DB but do not participate... What I proposed is then no drastic modification of DB, only a little linguistic oil in its machinery...
In my humble opinion a little investment in linguistic oil might have a huge reward in terms of audience's enlargement of DB...
But probably something like that needs some ripening...
