PSA: Non-English-language posts

[felephant]

Non-English-language posts are, as far as I am concerned, welcome. (Am open to revising this position in face of popular revolt.) However, posts must of course contain or at least aspire to philosophy; also, duplicate posts will be deleted.

Comments

[paulliver]

I've been enjoying these youtube videos you can find by typing in the name of a philosopher + life and philosophy.

Not that it's on topic, I'm just saying.

Not a revolt...

[nanikore]

But I seriously object to the latest Russian language post in this forum.

I'm not sure if it's practical for anyone who is not versed in the foreign language to even attempt deciphering it via a (comically underperforming) tool such as Google Translate, and then type back a reply, also using a machine translator.

Unless we have a human being here who can translate, or an author who is able and willing to translate his or her own posts into English, foreign language posts are a distraction and a waste of space. Again, I refer to what has become of real_philosophy. If the author wants to, he can post the foreign language posts over at real_philosophy as it is "accidentally en vogue" there.

Re: Not a revolt...

[felephant]

My feeling is rather, why do we need to be able to understand everything that's posted here? As far as I'm aware, you can't have Cyrillic LJ community names, so there's nothing in the community name that implies that this is an Anglophone community. A lot of Russians follow the community; shouldn't they have a space for discussion, or at least a venue to encounter philosophy, too? Anglophones can just ignore those posts. It's not like there're so many of them that we can't find the English-language posts!

Re: Not a revolt...

[nanikore]

Ah. I see that it has come down to a discussion on ROI. This conference call is not going to be very interesting

Re: Not a revolt...

[felephant]

1. Why can't they have two spaces? Anglophones had two for ages