Originally posted by ramlambmoo

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The official language of PS is english. If you\'re going to help people get into PS in their native languages, fine, but I\'m totally against the separation based on language that will inevitably happen if people can have the convenience of using their native language, instead of having to practice english. This separation will hamper RP, and be bad for a general mindset that might even culminate in racism towards RL people, that will manifest at least in guilds only accepting people who come from certain language areas, which would not even have any RP value. Furthermore, in todays world, being able to communicate in the english language is almost a requirement, so why not take the opportunity to learn it while doing something fun, where it doesn\'t matter if you make mistakes, than having to do so later under way less pleasant circumstances?

And before you accuse me of not knowing what it is like to be non-native english speaking: I am not natively english speaking, but AMOF, I don\'t see this matter in any way, and will decline to use my native language in PS.

In fact, I think it sucks very badly to have all these non-english content on the internet. It adds to redundancy, and the information I need might simply be written in any of the multiple languages I don\'t understand. If everyone would simply use english if by any means possible, the purpose of the internet, which is communicating information to the broadest base of people possible, would be achieved way better.

That has got to be the most narrow minded rant ive ever heard.  Ok, the offical language of PS is english, so that language should be used.  But how can you expect everyone on the internet to use english? Oh, boo hoo you cant read some of the content?  Oh, you must feel so left out being the majority of users who can read most things on the internet.  Why in gods name should everyone be forced to speak english on the inernet? To make it easier for us? WTF? Its called tolerance.  Diversity.  I only speak english, but i understand how bad it is as a language to learn properly.  Linguistically english is one of the worst languages around with the amount of euphemisms, sayings, metaphors etc... plus the largely non-existent spelling rules (well for me ) and the ridiculously felixble grammer system.... Im very happy i was born and english speaker because it is the language out of all in the world i would least like to have to learn. I would support a global language on the internet, but only if it wasnt english, so it would be easy to learn.  Something like Korean, except more european. (latin perhaps? lol).  I say korean because its a very structured, scientific language- everything can be said pretty much one or two ways, and you know exactly what everything means.  Plus it is 100% phonetically correct- what you see written is exactly how you pronounce it, every time.  If we had a global language, it surely would need to be a good language.

um... speaking of worst laguage to learn, try chinese, especially traditional chinese...which is using in Taiwan.
Instead of using spelling, we have over 400,000 characters exist. 4,000 of them are the common use characters. Lots of characters have two or three different pronunciations, applying the different pronunciation can lead the sentence to completely different meaning. And even by missing one tiny stroke of some characters can oppsite the meanings.
I havn\'t start to talk about the grammer yet...

why i\'m talking about those? i think i\'m just bored...