Hi,

Is it possible to make this an english-only site? My first language is Dutch, but that doesn't mean I'm going to post in Dutch here. Yes, I'm talking about all the Russian chatter that is really confusing and annoying.

Thanks.

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I agree.

13 years ago
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Agree.

13 years ago
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Read all these threads. Then comeback.

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In other words use Google Translate or ignore it. :D

13 years ago
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Or This plugin at least this is what I use.

13 years ago
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There's always the option "Learn bloody english". It's not the hardest language in the world, by far.

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Or you could stop being a racist. You racist.

13 years ago
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*linguacist

13 years ago
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actually, it's closer to nationalism with a touch of isolationism, since "English only" is only a stone's throw away from "American only"*

*"English only" is also the argument used to degrade immigrants from Mexico

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Not really, since there's plenty of people on the English-only side who are either from the UK or who aren't native speakers themselves.

13 years ago
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English is not my first language. How can I be racist for supporting it's usage on international websites?

13 years ago
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It is not THE hardest language, since it is the "Global Language".

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Oh look, it's this thread again.

13 years ago
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This rule is already in place. It's just not enforced.

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Google Translate makes Russian even harder to understand :(

13 years ago
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+1. At least GT will list alternate translations for whatever Russian/etc you give it. Trying to translate Googlish into actual readable English without the original copy is nigh impossible.

13 years ago
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Use promt

13 years ago
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I don't care if this kind of thread appears every once in a while. Non-english posts are annoying anytime of the year.

13 years ago
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Bet you'd like it if we just nuked all those other countries off the map, eh, you warmonger?

13 years ago
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What the... Calm down dude.

13 years ago
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Ich weiß nicht worüber er redet.

Je ne sais pas de qu'il parle.

Non scio de quid dicit.

13 years ago
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Ich sehe was du dort getan hat.

Je vois ce que vous avez fait là.

Video quid fecisti ibi.

13 years ago
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Touché

13 years ago
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I agree, and i am russian :P

13 years ago
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There is Google Translate you know...

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I just wanna make sure I have this straight. People want to shun users of an international website... because other people of the world refuse to learn a foreign language?

What makes you too good to learn a foreign language?

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dito

13 years ago
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The prevailing argument on that side seems to be that because the website is in English, clearly it is meant to be used by English speakers, and anyone not using English is therefore using the site improperly.

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The thing is, if the Russian annoys folks that much... just freakin' ignore it. It's just that folks are too solipsistic to understand that their way isn't the only lifestyle. And they're too nosy to not care what other folks are saying, even when it has nothing to do with them.

You don't wanna see Russian? Scroll through it and stop crying. You know?

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Yeah, I personally don't even see what they're complaining about. The only Russian I've seen recently was in comments on giveaways, which aren't exactly prime reading material.

13 years ago
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Estás zangado filho?

13 years ago
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Urgh.

13 years ago
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can't you just ignore them if you don't understand them?

13 years ago
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"Do you even understand Chinese?" "NO WAY MAN THAT S--T IS INSANE; IT'S ALL, CHING CHONG WING WONG"

Not the language mentioned, but I'm reminded of this Achewood quote.

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I agree. It's like I would start talking like: Ta že jak še tu mate ej ale je tu mnoho junákov! :D

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Scumbag English speakers ... complain about people not taking the time to type English .... does not take the time to search for a topic that has been resposted more than 5 times.

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If this were facebook, there'd be a thing under your post that says, "kuribo likes this."

13 years ago
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If this were facebook, there'd be a thing under your post that says, "NooBstEr likes this."

13 years ago
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If this were Google Plus, there would be a +1 under this post.

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If this were Myspace, I wouldn't be replying, because I don't have a Myspace.

13 years ago
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Quick question, what's the most spoken language on earth?(knows the answer lololololol)

13 years ago
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Mandarin Chinese, followed by Spanish.

13 years ago
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Exactly, so why aren't we all speaking Chinese? :D

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Americuh, FUCK YEAH!

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Que chino mandarino ni que... español hombre, todo el mundo a hablar español!

lol

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La lengua del Imperio, ¡coño! lol

13 years ago
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Please rise as we sing the Soviet National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TVU-sjy5_4

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Funny how the one's who are against it are complaining in english.
the ones asking this aren't even native users man. americans don't care. and this isn't the cold war either.
we don't go to french websites spamming english, we don't use dutch on english sites. what's the use. nobody understands you anyway? if you wanna thank someone, or write a question about a giveaway, and you do it in russian, how are you expecting an answer?

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I am all for it.
First let me say, I am German. I could easily just type anything here in german. But I don't. Why? Because I respect others people need to understand me. People just writing in other languages don't respect that. They could just call me an asshole and I would not understand it. That is inpolite. And esp. on such a website, which lives from its community, it is of an urgent importance to understand each other.

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I tried, but I couldn't have said it better!
if you go on a holiday and talk you own language the locals also think you're talking behind their backs. it's not nice!

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Since this is mainly an English-language website anyway, I would also like to see this enforced. It's cool if you make a private giveaway in a foreign language if you're only going to share it with people who speak that language, but otherwise it's disrespectful. We can assume that everyone here speaks English (again, since this is mainly an English-language site to begin with), but we can't assume the same for any other language.

Sure it'd be easier for me if everyone spoke Dutch (since it's my first language as well), but I'm not so arrogant that I expect everyone here to speak a minority language, or to deliberately speak in a language that I know most of the people here wouldn't understand.

Ik bedoel, het toont niet echt van respect om een publiek gesprek te houden in een taal die niemand begrijpt. :P

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Enough, I made this rule. It is my rule and I would like it to be followed. Get off it, if you cannot type English DO NOT type at all (sorry but I do understand Russian and I can read it and I am tired of the chat being filled with "asshole americans" and shit). If you don't want to follow it, I'll start typing all the languages I know saying bad things and see how you all like it. Don't start with me....I am the WRONG person to start with.

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Closed 13 years ago by XYZJR.