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Try to see the positive side:

the reason why you see so many non-native speakers around is because Bitcoin has become a global movement, and thus has bitcointalk Wink

Also, why would English be the dominant language at bitcointalk?
As long as there's no English sub-forum, I really don't see a good reason why bad English should be considered an issue.

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Quote from: bluefirecorp on May 23, 2014, 05:24:37 AM

There's been a lot of posts which I've read and asked myself "what"? I've had better luck understand a 2 year old than a LOT of the posts I've read.

Be understanding, that's all.

Most of them probably have only studied English for 2 years, so they speak like a 2 year old. If I were to learn and speak their native language, I would be be A LOT worse than them in English.

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Quote from: Kluge on May 23, 2014, 05:32:06 AM

Broken English is a serious issue when p2p business is done. Escrow borders on being impossible to provide adequately. GTranslate can usually do a superior job if they write in their native language, but OTOH, if they don't write it themselves, it's more difficult to learn. Then again, nobody corrects them because it'd likely end up a flamey thread-jacking where the person correcting is some stuck-up Western asshole (funny part is it usually isn't the person who was corrected who calls them that).

"Do nothing" is the best bet, I guess. Try to understand them or just skip over it if you don't think it's worth reading.

Dunno. I'm pretty grateful when someone corrects my piss-poor Spanish. I don't want to go around telling people to stuff my body into a container of alcohol when I mean to ask where the whiskey is.

Honestly, I'm glad that I'm not the only one. I was kinda freaking out while writing this topic, being seen as an insensitive, racist, jackass who makes fun of people different than him.

I'll maintain the status of doing nothing about it until there's a better solution >.<

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Broken English is a serious issue when p2p business is done. Escrow borders on being impossible to provide adequately. GTranslate can usually do a superior job if they write in their native language, but OTOH, if they don't write it themselves, it's more difficult to learn. Then again, nobody corrects them because it'd likely end up a flamey thread-jacking where the person correcting is some stuck-up Western asshole (funny part is it usually isn't the person who was corrected who calls them that).

"Do nothing" is the best bet, I guess. Try to understand them or just skip over it if you don't think it's worth reading.

Dunno. I'm pretty grateful when someone corrects my piss-poor Spanish. I don't want to go around telling people to stuff my body into a container of alcohol when I mean to ask where the whiskey is.

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Quote from: Mitchell on May 23, 2014, 05:28:24 AM

I know what you mean and it's horrible, but I don't think that you can report someone because of their shitty English. Best thing you can do is either ignore them, try your best to understand them or try to help them become better at English.

It's just it's not getting any better, at all. Actually, as time goes on it's gotten worse and worse.

I hate to be racist in any regard, but it is degrading the quality of the average post. I did check out the Indian sub-board (I believe most of these posters are Indian or they have a 1st language), and I think it'd be best of a lot of the content was posted there instead.

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I know what you mean and it's horrible, but I don't think that you can report someone because of their shitty English. Best thing you can do is either ignore them, try your best to understand them or try to help them become better at English.

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There's been a lot of posts which I've read and asked myself "what"? I've had better luck understand a 2 year old than a LOT of the posts I've read.
If I went to the French section, and started posting in very broken french, I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate it, as it lowers the overall quality of their reading daily.

I'm only seeking a solution:

Should I report them?
Should I ignore them?
Should I try my best to try to understand them?

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