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New FAQ question (languages...)

Postby iserlohn » Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:10 am

Hey there,

I checked the FAQ for this but didn't see anything, so I figured that I may as well post it here...

Perhaps it would be a good idea to put any possible rules about languages on the forum in the FAQ. While I don't have any problems with people having conversations in Japanese or French or whatever, others may, and I've seen various IRC channels and boards with English-only rules.

As far as other languages go...profanity filters are annoying, but perhaps a PG-13 rating for the forum would be a nice thing to have at times...

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Postby KhalReblic23 » Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:45 am

I only cus when neccessary, for example...when i was blind in my F-ing right eye. As for different languages, I havnt seen much foriegn stuff, so it hasnt really affected me....nor would i be offended...however, i think what ever language the thread is in, should be that way the whole time...know what i mean?
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Postby TekkaRepliroid Zero » Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:27 am

OK, I have to speak up on this, an x-language-only rule is asinine. It gets under my skin too because I can speak multiple languages and wish to speak them freely whenever I want, it's a freedom anyone should be entitled to. I study Japanese, I'm getting closer to advanced now, and I have posted in Japanese before here, and elsewhere. I know that PHPBB can screw different language display abilities like asian languages, so please don't make such an extreme, unpleasant, and unnecessary suggestion.

On another forum, in an off-topic section, there's a "what languages do you know?" thread, and people would find other people speaking the same languages and start talking in them, it was cool. I actually started talking to someone in Swedish in that thread. Cool things like that can't happen when you have absurd rules like english-language-only.
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Postby TekkaRepliroid Zero » Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:29 am

I should also add on that we have had people show up on these forums that have poor english, and friendly neighborhood forum regulars with knowledge of this poster's language are kind enough to go to the effort and reply in their native tongue. This has happened for German (quite recently), Spanish I think, and Japanese as well.
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Post subjects are a waste of time.

Postby Xanthrax » Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:50 pm

What, English is the dominant language here? You could have fooled me.
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Re: Post subjects are a waste of time.

Postby jonmartensen » Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:52 pm

Xanthrax wrote:What, English is the dominant language here? You could have fooled me.


I think you're confusing "English" with "The proper use of grammar and decent spelling" :x
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Postby RichLather » Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:56 pm

Or maybe d00dzpeek is what was inferred. :P
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