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Should TheSite be off-limits to foreigners
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Or more accurately, non-english speaking foreigners? I mean even the most foreign people here are good at english and use english in theor posts etc. But one newbie, sevenblue or something can't without using a translator and then people moan and she moans etc.
I am in no way saying I'm against foreigners using this site but just as in real life you would expect someone coming here to have a basic grasp of english or vice versa if you were visiting their country (I know this isn't always true of british holidaymakers)
Anyway. Your views?
I am in no way saying I'm against foreigners using this site but just as in real life you would expect someone coming here to have a basic grasp of english or vice versa if you were visiting their country (I know this isn't always true of british holidaymakers)
Anyway. Your views?
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You only expect them to know some English because of how important that language is in modern days. I expect none of the foreigners that come to Iceland to know any Icelandic. It's actually more common that they expect me to communicate in their languages.
And I disagree with making thesite off-limits to foreigners. If people had never bothered talking/writing to me while my English was less than good, I would never have learnt how to use it properly (not that it's anywhere near perfect now).
In the same way I do talk Icelandic to people who speak it badly, but are still trying, no matter how much I wish to make my life easier and switch to English. It often annoys me a lot and I sometimes get the feeling I'm talking to a brick wall, but they are trying, and if nobody had had the patience to help me by communicating while I was learning, I would not have made much of a progress.
As it is the internet as opposed to real life it is easier to be harsher, because there aren't any tourism or business reasons.
but if the person doesnt speak english at all well then its sorta a waste of time for them....but still their decision
pretty much what i was gonna say.
everyone is welcome, but we all speak english, so if they want to join in, it'd be better for them to speak english too.
go and post something english on an italian website and see what response you get.
If they are posting in broken english they will hardly look out of place
I was very welcomed actually.
I don't know if you forgot to notice the .org.uk domain, but that means the website is ENGLISH. I wouldn't go to a co.it website and expect them to speak fluent English because I don't know any Italian.
Everyone's welcome, it's a good way to learn English. But if you can't speak a word then it seems a mite pointless to stay.
Why? If someone can't speak the lingo they'll either learn like Fafnir or they will leave.
How do you propose to enforce it, test them when they join??!
It's one thing to expect a person to speak decent english if they want to emmigrate here, but I don't remember having to show my passport at the boarders of thesite.org.
Anyone spot the irony?
No. Next?
Do you propose correcting Luke's grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation every time he posts?
Fuck me, you're a humourless miseryguts aren't you?
Because dyslexia is such a joke :rolleyes:
I was being sardonic. It's so hard to communicate such things with just words.
And if they do, they'll eventually either switch to English, or leave.
I honestly can't see any need to stick something somewhere to discourage those people from joining when it happens so incredibly rarely (has it ever?).