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Originally posted by Shrek@Aug 5 2005, 08:25 PM
well, it might be true that 80% of the world population doesn' t speak english at all, but i bet more than 90% of the people that uses internet and posts at foruns has the minimum requirements to understand and write in english (i ' m one of these*  * - i think)
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that is exactly the thing- you (unconciously) believe that everyone else is genraly like you. in psychology this is called "projection", and it actualy helps you to understand other peoples goals and motivatios,
but it doesn't allways work. I don't know the exact figures, but
I think it should be somwhere in the region of 60-80%.
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Originally posted by Shrek@Aug 5 2005, 08:25 PM
also, let me place a little example to see if i can explain my point of view: Joselito, a spanish guy (it can be from another country if you wish so :whistle: and with another name ) has some trouble running some software or some game and decides to open a topic in the spanish forum, written in spanish, because he doesn' t feel at ease writting in english. imagine now that half of the members know the answer but they don' t understand spanish. how can Joselito solve his problem?
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that is one of the parts of the plan. you see even with the flow of new visitors there will probably be no more than 100 new members (with more than 1 post), so maybe 5 (or even less) will actualy become active posters. If Joselito wants a fast and efficient soultion he will post in english (people who come to this site are on the average smarter than 100 IQ, so they can think logicaly). that will mean that large part of the spanish comunity will have constant contact with the rest of the forum (which will prevent cultural satgnation, or whatecer it's called), and the rest will recieve help from people who actualy understand them.
about the size issues: when I satrted the topic I meant that laguges get their subsections (on the scale of "Site comments/suggestions", "Requests", or "3xBlah"), not subforums (on the scale of "Abandonia.com", "Games" or "Chatterbox"), and that they are kept small but tidy. the number of mods will be increased proportionaly (so moding will remain on present level), and I don't really think that much programing work will be needed after the initial setup of the sections. BTW it seems that the forum allready supports forgein fonts (the ones I've personaly seen and can remeber now are: Russian, Romanan, Geraman and Icelandian.), so you don't have to worry about that. Allso since we don't expect too much new visitors it shouldn't realy kill our bandwidth either.