Why do non-English speakers come to Poly? - Page 2

Dauphin · May 16, 2002, 13:28

I don't like branching threads....

moomin · May 16, 2002, 13:33

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Originally posted by GP
You mean branching threads are losing out to UBB/VBB types of BBS?

Nope, I was talking 'bout usenet, which has little to do with the web in the first place. Usenet thread don't really branch either, although they sure drift as much as they do on web boards.

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Does it vary by nationality? For instance, do Germans tend to stick to their forums (like the one of Infograme Germany) while Finns go to the English boards?

Who's to know, really? Sound's like you have got yourself an interesting little academic excercise in Liberal Arts, or something, if you can sell it that as "research" to someone. I'd sure be interested in the findings, should you ever go down that road.

DarkCloud · May 17, 2002, 19:22

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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The French BOUGHT Firaxis, therefore we've got to invite THEM to come to OUR forum.

ah, thank you for the translation

And Giovanni- it is both a Greek and a Canadian forum.
Therefore- everyone on it must speak either Greek, Canadian or (In the Spanish Forums- Spanish) Or in the OT, Finnish.

French, Dutch [AKA Belgish to many uneducated personages

], and Romainan are outlawed, Along with English, American and Mexican tongues.

Scouse Gits · May 17, 2002, 20:43

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Originally posted by DarkCloud

ah, thank you for the translation

And Giovanni- it is both a Greek and a Canadian forum.
Therefore- everyone on it must speak either Greek, Canadian or (In the Spanish Forums- Spanish) Or in the OT, Finnish.

French, Dutch [AKA Belgish to many uneducated personages

], and Romainan are outlawed, Along with English, American and Mexican tongues.

No

DarkCloud · May 17, 2002, 21:03

Which Scouse Git was that?

Shadowstrike · May 17, 2002, 21:55

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Originally posted by DarkCloud
it is both a Greek and a Canadian forum.
Therefore- everyone on it must speak either Greek, Canadian or (In the Spanish Forums- Spanish) Or in the OT, Finnish.

No problem aboot that!

Sirotnikov · May 17, 2002, 22:03

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Originally posted by Lonestar
Plus, all those Euro forums are Israel haters.

Like your avatar, Siro

I can deal with Israel haters, thank you.

My avatar is a direct cheecky response to the one Marcus put up.

He is denying my right to freedom and self definition, by putting an X over my flag.

So I'm putting an X over his self definition - his nickname.

Imran Siddiqui · May 17, 2002, 22:12

Does that mean I can put an X over Eli's name?

Lonestar · May 17, 2002, 22:15

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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Does that mean I can put an X over Eli's name?

Only if I get to strike through your name, Imran.

Mr. President · May 17, 2002, 22:17

English is my first language, but I've been living in Australia for so long I'm not sure if I count as a speaker any more.

Juga, aku tidak tahu di mana letaknya forum bahasa Indonesia. Setidak-tidaknya harus ada satu. Mungkin juga tidak seenak Apolyton!

Skanky Burns · May 18, 2002, 00:17

Indonesian?

Mr. President · May 18, 2002, 00:20

On the nose! Roughly translated, it says something like:

"Also, I don't know where the Indonesian message boards are located. There must be at least one. It may not be as nice as Apolyton!"

Gatekeeper · May 18, 2002, 04:12

Gezuidheit! (Dang. I bet I spelled that wrong, too.)

KrazyHorse · May 18, 2002, 04:28

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Originally posted by Mr. President
On the nose! Roughly translated, it says something like:

"Also, I don't know where the Indonesian message boards are located. There must be at least one. It may not be as nice as Apolyton!"

I think the "Indonesia" part of your original message gave it away...

Mr. President · May 18, 2002, 05:19

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Originally posted by KrazyHorse

I think the "Indonesia" part of your original message gave it away...

Yeah. There's not really any other way to express "the Indonesian language" in Indonesian, though.

Skanky Burns · May 18, 2002, 05:33

The fact that it wasn't English, and Indonesia is the closest non-English speaking country also figured into that "guess"

TCO · May 18, 2002, 13:34

Stop with the avatar escalation. Don't drag us all into an avatar war...

FrustratedPoet · May 18, 2002, 16:06

Some of us poor Warlords can't wait until we can have controversial and unpopular avatars ...

There are many more miles of spam before me until I get it though...

I like the look of the Indonesian language ... it looks pretty cool on the screen ... almost like somebody trying to clear their nose, which is no bad thing in my book.

moomin · May 18, 2002, 17:52

You're doing just great FP.

But to get back on topic (well, somewhat) I think Finnish looks cooler than Indonesian. It looks cooler - and more alien - than just about anything.

I bet if the little green man ever land a saucer they'll actually speak Finnish.

CapTVK · May 18, 2002, 18:22

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Originally posted by GP
Do you all think that there are more non-English speaking civers on English-speaking boards or on native boards? (obviously the native boards are smaller. But if we summed them up.)

From my observation native boards will attract far more native speakers than international english speaking ones. And there a quite a few native Civ boards in the world which add up. Just because you don't go look for them doesn't mean they don't exist.

For my self, I came through USENET and UCC in it's heyday...English was never a problem for me so there wasn't really a language barrier.

Zoid · May 18, 2002, 18:41

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Originally posted by moominparatrooper
You're doing just great FP.

But to get back on topic (well, somewhat) I think Finnish looks cooler than Indonesian. It looks cooler - and more alien - than just about anything.

I bet if the little green man ever land a saucer they'll actually speak Finnish.

Isn´t enough that Orcs speak finnish?

DanQ · May 18, 2002, 20:21

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Originally posted by GP

I don't buy the Mark/Dan line about how this is primarily a gaming site.

Apolyton's primary function at the outset and still is to serve the gaming community, and in particular a specific portion of that community. However, I would not try to maintain -- nor would I want to -- that Apolyton is nothing more than that. I have no doubt that Markos agrees with me on this.

On the contrary, Apolyton site has blossomed beyond both of our expectations not only in terms of size and popularity, but also depth. There are limits to the extent to which non-gaming matters will be permitted to be addressed on the site, of course, but we do not see this site in so strict "black and white" terms as far as gaming/non-gaming goes.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

KrazyHorse · May 18, 2002, 20:52

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Originally posted by GP
Stop with the avatar escalation. Don't drag us all into an avatar war...

You talkin' to me? Will stop when Eli, Siro and Marcus get act together...

alva · May 18, 2002, 20:56

i must say that i'm quite surprised to see how many dutch speaking people there are on these boards (both countries not being all that big and all

)
i'l from antwerp btw

ot: i guess there are too many forums, wich is no problem for an english one (being very international by nature), because it can attract enough people to keep it interresting. But the "local" ones are symply boring (bad mods, very few people, very! adolescent, spamfestivals even compared to poly

), they don't generate enough traffic

if a forum doesn't have enough posters it wil fade

so spam away D)