Using English

[Elbmek]

Hey guys, come on!!! How many of us speak Russian?? All you have to do is translate in google. Get off your're arse and translate, you're answers will arrive quicker!!!

Эй, ребята, давай! Сколько из нас говорит по-русски? Все, что вам нужно сделать, это перевести в google. Отойдите от своей задницы и переведите, вы получите ответы быстрее!

[Jack Schitt]

Make note that there are dedicated forums for almost every language. People don't bother using their eyes. Just like there are multiple threads asking about the same exact thing...if they would look and search for it they might find it without having to ask.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/
Scroll down a bit. For someone in Russia the Russian forums might even be at the top for them but I don't know for sure.

[Elbmek]

Thanks Jack, it was an annoyance that we were getting posts where we might have been able to help but in some language unknown to others. Maybe if they knew how to use google translate, might help.

[Jerry]

引用自 Jack Schitt：

Scroll down a bit. For someone in Russia the Russian forums might even be at the top for them but I don't know for sure.

Nope. To me, the german forum is not on top either, but at the same position, an english user would find it.

That being said, not everybody on Steam knows to speak english as well, so posting in a language, one is familiar with does certainly have its reasoning. Even more important might be the fact, that the answers, one receives, are in the own language too. In a subforum, that is meant to get in contact with other users, this definitely matters.

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[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Since there are more native mandarine and spanish speakers in the world maybe standardize on those two languages? ;D

For someone like me coming from what is still a pretty small country where ~20+ million people sorta speak a similar language at-least there's quite the difference to Russian or Arabic which a lot of people speak.

English just happen to be a common standard now but it could just as well had been German.

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Threads that are in another language are usually moved the correct sub-forum.

In some cases, we'd go the extra mile to translate and help other users that have a foreign language.

[Elbmek]

Surely it is the best interest of the poster to use google translate? He will get an answer far quicker? English is the language of the interent, its not going to change, so come on guys.

This took me about 30 secs to get up and throw through translate:


Наверняка это лучший интерес для плаката для использования google translate? Он получит ответ гораздо быстрее? Английский язык - это язык интерентации, который не изменится, так что приходите ребятам.

Sin duda, es el mejor interés del cartel para utilizar el traductor de Google? ¿Recibirá una respuesta mucho más rápida? El inglés es el idioma del interent, no va a cambiar, así que vamos chicos.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

引用自 Lord of Mars：

Surely it is the best interest of the poster to use google translate? He will get an answer far quicker? English is the language of the interent, its not going to change, so come on guys.

This took me about 30 secs to get up and throw through translate:


Наверняка это лучший интерес для плаката для использования google translate? Он получит ответ гораздо быстрее? Английский язык - это язык интерентации, который не изменится, так что приходите ребятам.

Sin duda, es el mejor interés del cartel para utilizar el traductor de Google? ¿Recibirá una respuesta mucho más rápida? El inglés es el idioma del interent, no va a cambiar, así que vamos chicos.

It is not.
It's among us.
There's a separate large Spanish YouTube community I'm not part of.
Lots of people speak Russian or Arabic.
And then there's the Chinese large enough by themselves to be their own group. I assume Japanese and South Korean communities is large and active enough to be their own too.
I don't really know how Indians do.

For me as a Swede I don't have much options. PC cancer is large among Swedes so never bother in large groups.

[Elbmek]

Inside national borders you can use native tongues, but internationally its english. Anyway, this thread is done as far as I can see. If a person posts in none english asking for help, it ain't off me pal!