17-04-2004 05:41									#31
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You're Canadian- aren't you required to by law?

	17-04-2004 05:44									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Ming People who post in a foreign language in this thread are just ASKING to be restricted...

Okay, point taken.

	17-04-2004 07:04									#33
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quote: Originally posted by yaroslav The very concept of "foreign language" show us how self-centered are you, ParkAvenue. This site is not american or english. If I recall it correctly, one owner is from Canada and the other from Greek, so "foreign languages" would be anything but Greek, English and French. So would you like to ban any other language but allow Greek signature?

It's not self-centered (though I think he's being a stickler for arguing over sigs), because English-only actually is the rule, plus, even if it wasn't, it's the de facto language of 'Poly.

	17-04-2004 07:06									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi Est-ce bien si nous traduisons cette passages? [Is it okay if we provide simultaneous translations?]

The word "simultaneous" does not appear in the French sentence. Do you have something to hide, BK?

	17-04-2004 08:22									#35
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quote: Do you have something to hide, BK?

Je ne sais pas le mot pour "simultaneous" en francais.

[Do you really need a translation for this?]

	17-04-2004 09:33									#36
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quote: Originally posted by Park Avenue It's Snapcase's sig that offends me.

If you mean Buck Birdseed's sig I can't see why it would offend anyone. It is just a ad for a radioshow in Umeå

	17-04-2004 09:59									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi Est-ce bien si nous traduisons cette passages? [Is it okay if we provide simultaneous translations?]

Like this?

"Ming est un bâtard"

[Ming is a great loveable mod]

(nothing serious Ming, but I am sure you know this one sentence, so that's why I use it )

	17-04-2004 10:16									#38
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Which highlights quite well why allowing translations as well is somewhat dangerous.

	17-04-2004 11:14									#39
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Ming nous fait confiance absolument.

[Ming trusts us]

	17-04-2004 11:19									#40
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Right

	17-04-2004 13:12									#41
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To ensure that swear filters will work we could make it so that people would have to use identifiers such as [spanish] [/spanish]. To be fair, English users would have to use the same for their language and they'd have to be specific [ukenglish] [/ukenglish], etc

	17-04-2004 13:48									#42
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Tittybiscuits to that.

	17-04-2004 15:00									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Kucinich It's not self-centered (though I think he's being a stickler for arguing over sigs), because English-only actually is the rule, plus, even if it wasn't, it's the de facto language of 'Poly.

But the rest of languages are not "foreign". I'm not saying this is not a English-speaken site, I'm saying that there is no "national" and "foreign" languages. And I wouldn't have complianed about the word "foreign" has anyother but PA used it... But I'm afraid of knowing what the word "foreign" means for PA....

	17-04-2004 15:25									#44
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I don't think one should respond to a troll with serious points. So [ukenglish]tittybiscuits indeed [/ukenglish].

	17-04-2004 15:31									#45
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There should be an auto translate button so all posts appear in 7 differetn languages. Just what this site needs.

	17-04-2004 15:36									#46
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In quasi-Danish: Monk, har ikke din mor lært deg å ikke kaste stein når du sitter i glasshus?

In English: pot, kettle, black.

	17-04-2004 16:00									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Gangerolf In quasi-Danish: Monk, har ikke din mor lært deg å ikke kaste stein når du sitter i glasshus? In English: pot, kettle, black.

Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, Flafnir plapp plapp plapp plapp. Radio, får får får? Axis of Øvil.

[Well, she always said that people who live in glass houses should screw in the basement, but I'm not certain if that's what you're aiming at. At least I did't see the controversy with the radio ad.]

	17-04-2004 16:07									#48
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Goawrdh moawghn Daghngdmawrk!


I don't know what I'm aiming at. People in glass houses shouldn't be aiming at anything really. harr harr

Edit: actually I know what I was aiming at. But I see now that it wasn't very clever:
You seem to think that Park Avenue should spend his time on more useful things than complaining about the use of "foreign" languages in general and Snapcase's sig in particular. Then I "complain" about your "complaining", which of course makes me just as big a "complainer". So we're all in glass houses. (Well Park Avenue is not, I think.)

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	17-04-2004 18:32									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi Est-ce bien si nous traduisons cette passages? [Is it okay if we provide simultaneous translations?]

Oh come on, obiwan - that's just showing off, really.

I don't do that. And none of us should do anything I don't do.

	17-04-2004 19:38									#50
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What do you mean showing off, it's not even french

	17-04-2004 19:43									#51
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos If you mean Buck Birdseed's sig I can't see why it would offend anyone. It is just a ad for a radioshow in Umeå

It's promoting multiculturalism

Btw, I don't think you should ban foreign languages. If I couldn't post in a foreign language, I would have to post in Swedish, and most of you guys wouldn't understand it.

	17-04-2004 20:27									#52
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quote: Med plutonium tvingar vi dansken på knä.

Intressant signarur..., men jag vet inte om danskar kan störas av den.

[Interesting sig, something like "My words are backed by nuclear weapons", but not really ]

	17-04-2004 20:30									#53
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It all sounds/looks foreign to me.

Monk

	17-04-2004 21:05									#54
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Like this? "Ming est un bâtard" [Ming is a great loveable mod] (nothing serious Ming, but I am sure you know this one sentence, so that's why I use it )

	17-04-2004 21:27									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos quote: Med plutonium tvingar vi dansken på knä. Intressant signarur..., men jag vet inte om danskar kan störas av den. [Interesting sig, something like "My words are backed by nuclear weapons", but not really ]

It's from the Danish movie series"Riget" , where an arrogant Swedish neurosurgeon is working in Denmark, a country he really really hates. The quote is from a scene where he's standing on the hospital roof, watching Sweden with binoculars, and zooming in to one of our nuclear plants. "Thank you, Swedish watch towers. With plutonium we force the Dane on his knees"

	18-04-2004 00:26									#56
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike I don't think one should respond to a troll with serious points. So [ukenglish]tittybiscuits indeed [/ukenglish].

What troll? I'm an Englishman speaking English, and I'm buggered if I'm about to qualify that by adding [englishenglish].

If you beastly foreigners choose to molest our glorious gift to the world then you can add your own labels. Not us.

	18-04-2004 05:31									#57
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This falls into asked and answered, now a spam fest. Time to close before someone gets banned.