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what do you guys think of a international forum, where we allow users to talk in there native language to others?

That would be extremelly cool!

ga12 wrote:That would be extremelly cool!

extremly cool for english speaking huh? since you are from USA...
anyway, if you would like, there arent much slovenians active on the forum so this wouldnt help me much, but maybe it would to others...

I think the idea is a great way of finding out about other cultures and learning languages (I learned most of the languages i speak from forums and google translator.)

es gibt eine halbe tote Kuh, die hinunter den Fluß schwimmt

Yeah but like me im From Danmark and i think im the only one from danmark in here so no engilsh is good

Didn't we try this in the old shells project and it went badly for exactly the reasons listed above? Many of the ESL people were just random ones or twos so you couldn't have read discussion between them.

It won't hurt if we just have a try (again) .

there is the problem of people spamming stuff without us understanding it...

What do you mean? I really liked the idea ... my Spanish is much better than the English ... and I'm not taking part in many discussions just because I'm lazy to verify every 5th word in the dictionary ... it's pretty clear to me taht I won't receive the shell account ... don't give a damn. This is interesting place. You've asked what do we think about the idea - it's great to me. However I don't understed what is the point of writing big posts when you can say what you want to say just with few words (not to look spamy maby?).

Cheers,
B.

Boso wrote:it's pretty clear to me taht I won't receive the shell account ... don't give a damn.

Funny you should bring that up, perhaps I should go through the current list of requests soon

yeah we can try to make some international forums. But i think we just need to collect information wich laguages are more popular here not for everyone :-) Like me i'm i think here only one person who can talk in Lithuanian language :-) So i don't need for my language a topic :-) and i think more ppl are like me. So they just must to try talk in englush like me.

An international forum would bring too much problems. The most trivial problem is spamming. Also we would split this (let's call it) large community into several smaller ones. Some people would post in their language only and wait forever for replies. If we had such a huge community, then it would be okay.

fishpoo222 wrote:es gibt eine halbe tote Kuh, die hinunter den Fluß schwimmt :D :D :D

There is a half and dead cow, which down-swims the river? =D

Correct: Es gibt eine halbtote Kuh, die den Fluss hinunterschwimmt. (Fluss, not Fluß, since the new syntax-rules.)

So we need some another internationl languages and moderators to take care of not spamming these forums :-)

mm_freak wrote:(Fluss, not Fluß, since the new syntax-rules.)

new syntax rules?

fishpoo222 wrote:

mm_freak wrote: (Fluss, not Fluß, since the new syntax-rules.)

new syntax rules? :?

Yes, since a few years we have new rules regarding orthography. For example the eszett 'ß' is used less often (dass instead of daß). It's only used where appropriate (draußen for example, where the 'au' vocal is spelled long). Also the comma-rules and rules for repeated consonants have changed a bit. Now it's (more logically) Schifffahrt instead of Schiffahrt.