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08 Sep 2008, 11:29 am

Is it because it's at the very bottom of the wrong planet?



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08 Sep 2008, 5:54 pm

waarom dit in het Engels is?


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08 Sep 2008, 6:54 pm

Triangular_Trees wrote:
waarom dit in het Engels is?


Cur lingua Anglorum est prima lingua mei.



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09 Sep 2008, 5:35 pm

分からねぇぞｗ



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09 Sep 2008, 6:04 pm

bakattsura wrote:
分からねぇぞｗ


Congrats, my computer doesn't have that character set.



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10 Sep 2008, 12:17 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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分からねぇぞｗ


Congrats, my computer doesn't have that character set.


You don't have the language pack installed... I always install them as I have online friends



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10 Sep 2008, 7:48 am

The only friends I have who use a different alphabet are my Israeli friends, but I got Hebrew installed on my computer. Thank you Mustafa Kemal Ataturk for introducing western alphabet in Turkiye 8)

The reasons why this part of the forum is rather inactive is simply because the vast majority of posters here are used to post in English where every member can interact. The other languages obviously carry restrictions with them: open a topic in Turkish, Wolof, Portuguese or Swedish and only a small percentage of members will even bother to read it, let alone interact in the discussion. This forum is English language, and people are used to post in English where everyone can join the debate. No other reason why this particular subforum is less active, I highly doubt it would be more active if it were somewhere more on top of the sites ranking order.


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10 Sep 2008, 12:12 pm

Keith wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
bakattsura wrote:
分からねぇぞｗ


Congrats, my computer doesn't have that character set.


You don't have the language pack installed... I always install them as I have online friends


I bought the laptop used and don't have the Windows 2000 Pro disc.



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10 Sep 2008, 12:15 pm

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The only friends I have who use a different alphabet are my Israeli friends, but I got Hebrew installed on my computer. Thank you Mustafa Kemal Ataturk for introducing western alphabet in Turkiye 8)

The reasons why this part of the forum is rather inactive is simply because the vast majority of posters here are used to post in English where every member can interact. The other languages obviously carry restrictions with them: open a topic in Turkish, Wolof, Portuguese or Swedish and only a small percentage of members will even bother to read it, let alone interact in the discussion. This forum is English language, and people are used to post in English where everyone can join the debate. No other reason why this particular subforum is less active, I highly doubt it would be more active if it were somewhere more on top of the sites ranking order.


I suppose so, but it would be nice if threads didn't die so easily here.



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10 Sep 2008, 9:51 pm

英語だけ話せますから。


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11 Sep 2008, 4:43 am

twoshots wrote:
英語だけ話せますから。



"Вы говорите только Английский?"
Нет, но я говорю в первую очередь Английский.
Я знаю Английский и испанский языки,
часов обучения латыни, изучали иврит,
Исследованы латышском языке, и один раз
Я пытался узнать, русский язык.



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11 Sep 2008, 10:26 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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The only friends I have who use a different alphabet are my Israeli friends, but I got Hebrew installed on my computer. Thank you Mustafa Kemal Ataturk for introducing western alphabet in Turkiye 8)

The reasons why this part of the forum is rather inactive is simply because the vast majority of posters here are used to post in English where every member can interact. The other languages obviously carry restrictions with them: open a topic in Turkish, Wolof, Portuguese or Swedish and only a small percentage of members will even bother to read it, let alone interact in the discussion. This forum is English language, and people are used to post in English where everyone can join the debate. No other reason why this particular subforum is less active, I highly doubt it would be more active if it were somewhere more on top of the sites ranking order.


I suppose so, but it would be nice if threads didn't die so easily here.

Thing is as well: there is one thread per foreign language, but apart from that language itself there is no real subject of discussion so this one thread gets chaotic easily because you have no point of debate. It is like telling someone to speak Japanese without telling him what to talk about in Japanese. I think if you want really diverse debates in any other language than English, you need regionalised forums instead of WrongPlanet. Because WP is already a very big forum compared to the average internet debate forum, if we would have several subforums per language as well the forum would basically become so huge that one gets lost in the number of subforums.


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11 Sep 2008, 6:43 pm

I'd say this should be made a foreign languages and linguistics forum and then moved up by the philosophy and politics forum.



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11 Sep 2008, 7:24 pm

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I'd say this should be made a foreign languages and linguistics forum and then moved up by the philosophy and politics forum.


Can you imagine how difficult it would be for those who don't speak english to find their languages thread if that happened?


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11 Sep 2008, 9:27 pm

Triangular_Trees wrote:
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I'd say this should be made a foreign languages and linguistics forum and then moved up by the philosophy and politics forum.


Can you imagine how difficult it would be for those who don't speak english to find their languages thread if that happened?

I think just about everyone here knows English, and I don't think single threads for each foreign language is the way to go (mainly because nothing's stopping people from opening new threads).



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11 Sep 2008, 11:00 pm

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I think just about everyone here knows English, and I don't think single threads for each foreign language is the way to go (mainly because nothing's stopping people from opening new threads).



thats why this forum is here. Not everyone here speaks english even though just about every poster does. This place is for those who don't speak english to find people who do speak their tongue.


I really don't understand the second part. In general the posters use one thread because with only 2 or 3 of them it keeps things easier, but there are languages here with more than one thread and there is nothing against that. There are 4 french threads on the first page and a few others on the second page.


This thread should however have a sticky at the top with links to foreign language autism forums. As it stands now a polish person would have to be able to read english and sort through the threads to find a polish forum which doesn't make to much sense

The dutch forum i'm on has an english forum for people just stopping by to say hi who don't know dutch but speak english. They include their list of foreign language equivalents in the top thread there. In general that forum gets a post or two every year. Actually its mainly just used by a german guy who comes to update the dutch on what they are doing in germany


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