Why do non-English speakers come to Poly?

[Asher]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
si eso es un buen idea.

nosotros aprendemos muchos nuevas lenguas!

Spanish and French don't count.

Everyone speaks those.

[Alexander's Horse]

Unlike you GP, some of these non English speakers play civ games.

So, why do you come here?

[aaglo]

Foreign people come here, so you could ask them about the ways of the world, funny habits of theirs and the meaning of Liff.

[Alex]

I was looking for a civ site and then I found Poly. Lurked for a while, thought it would be interesting to join the community and here I am. My English is far from perfect, but I think everybody understands what I say, and that keeps me coming back.

It is a matter of habit, also. Everyday I visit Apolyton, so it is as natural as breathing. During the Great Darkness (Dec 2001-Jan 2002), I almost suffocated.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Re: Why do non-English speakers come to Poly?

Originally posted by GP
Just wondering. We have a very international group. Many people who don't have English as their native language. How many people here frequent native language boards? Do you prefer them to an English dominated board?

Is having more people worth the hassle of speaking in a foeign language?

Believe me, after a while English doesn't feel foreign at all... Thanks to the Finnish education system, the language wasn't really much of a problem to begin with, and now it's almost a second language. I believe the people who don't really know English very well do think that it's worth the hassle to be around (to get to know people, gather information) - and for us others, there's no hassle.

[faded glory]

la relativa approvazione se non parlano inglese

[faded glory]

son ok s'ils pas l'anglais de speek

[Zoid]

Swedish message boards are too juvenile bordering to stupidity. Besides here you can discuss different views of the world, not to mention bash americans and zionists

[Immortal Wombat]

Nobody's made a "But Americans don't speak English either" joke yet.

[MikeH]

But Americans don't speak English either!

[moomin]

Perhaps it's too old, IW. Not that old jokes or old flame wars ever seem to die on 'Poly.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Unlike you GP, some of these non English speakers play civ games.

So, why do you come here?

I was discussing Civ at Poly, back when you were a gleam in Sarge's DL-producing eyes, young punk.

If you think the most fun thing to talk about is civ, you are wrong. The game has been beaten so many ways. OCC on size 1 arctic city, etc. I got sick of it in 1999.

Maybe if I had MP, I'd feel different.

And who says, Apolyton has to be about Civ anyway. That's just the front end of the site which is used to lure in eventual OTers.

I don't buy the Mark/Dan line about how this is primarily a gaming site.

[TCO]

Do you all think that there are more non-English speaking civers on English-speaking boards or on native boards? (obviously the native boards are smaller. But if we summed them up.)

[moomin]

The English boards win hands down. On the web, anyway. For some strange reason local special interest communities seem to thrive on usenet while the English hierarchies are losing participants to web boards. I don't have first clue as to why.

[TCO]

You mean branching threads are losing out to UBB/VBB types of BBS?

Does it vary by nationality? For instance, do Germans tend to stick to their forums (like the one of Infograme Germany) while Finns go to the English boards?