Bilingual users of the forums - you ever notice stark differences of opinion over things between English vs non-English

[ThatSmileyGuy]

Probably not what you were thinking of, but there is a definite cultural difference between the Queen's English speakers and those from over the pond, mainly concerned with the interpretation of "Freedom of speech" and how to spell "Colour".

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

It's more Dutch to me. "Aken" is the dutch name for "Aachen". French call it Aix LaChapelle (there is actually a cathedral, OK it's a small one) and the Romans called it Aquae something.

And Bosch is Dutch for "bush" (as a German just assumes). s'Hertogenbosch = The Duke's Bush (probably more like foirest). Also Hieronymus Bosch is one of my fav painters. Might have been Belgian. Pls don't ban me now.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

doesn't work scientifically unless you also have:
1/ the % of players in total for each language being their first language,
2/ the % for each language who could be considered active in the game, and
3/ the % for each language active on the forums.
and take all that into account in drawing any conclusion.

It is inevitable that if you had language with only 2 players sharing that language who played ED exclusively as fanboys, and they posted every day on the forums their position would be generally positive and consistent, while the views of 1 million where some also played other games first and not all posted daily would cover a broader range of views.

Well, i wasn't looking for valid statistics. Anecotal comments are fine!

 

[Hooplah]

Probably not what you were thinking of, but there is a definite cultural difference between the Queen's English speakers and those from over the pond, mainly concerned with the interpretation of "Freedom of speech" and how to spell "Colour".

As in...

UK centre, fibre, litre, theatre...USA center, fiber, liter, theater
UK defence, licence, offence, pretence...USA defense, license, offense, pretense
UK apologise, organise, recognise...USA apologize, organize, recognize
UK behaviour, colour, humour, labour, neighbour, flavour...USA behavior, color, humor, labor, neighbor, flavor

...and many more.

Meanwhile there is a metal in the UK pronouned Al-U-MEN-E-um.
In the USA it is Ah-LUM-ma-num. Go figure.

 

[AkenBosch]

And Bosch is Dutch for "bush" (as a German just assumes). s'Hertogenbosch = The Duke's Bush (probably more like foirest). Also Hieronymus Bosch is one of my fav painters. Might have been Belgian. Pls don't ban me now.

Dutch, as far as I know (Hyeronimus Bosch van Aken but I'm easily misspelling something here), even though Aachen now is inside German borders. One of my fav painters as well. (and incidentally, Egosoft is from Wurselen, a suburb of Aachen, as its CEO made me notice once!)

 

[rootsrat]

What i mean is in one language you are seeing mainly positive comments about something whereas in your language's subforum you're seeing mainly negative comments.

To give an example: Let's say Powerplay. In English you might think comments about it are generally negative and in your language they are generally positive (or vice versa).

If you have seen this, what was it about and do you think there might be some cultural reasons for it?

No. People complain equally about everything everywhere

On a more serious note, I'd say the proportions are pretty much the same when it comes to Polish community. (Talking about my own forums with 2500+ users and the main Facebook Polish group, rather than the Polish subforums here, which are pretty much dead).

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Since activity in the non-english Forums is extremely low, I essentially never read or post there.

And with >99% of posts happening in the english part of the Forum, I'm not seeing even a nucleus for many topics to display some distinct bias there in i.e. my native language SubForum.
Flipping to page 2 of the Discussion there already moves me 1.5 years back in time

So I'd say the answer for me would be : nope, none observed
(and add : insufficient sample size in the native language part of the Forum)

 

[Dragsham]

Then there's English speaking dialects...
From London cockney to Scots n Irish. incomprehensible to those not local.
Welsh is in its own group. Totally alien!
As a Londoner I struggle to understand most dialects inc Geordie, scouser, Manchurian, West country, and let's not forget those norfolk folks who knowone understands at all ever!
But accents nationalities aside, only a great game can bring us all together problem solving and info relaying as we all do.
Globalization in the making ED is.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Dutch, as far as I know (Hyeronimus Bosch van Aken but I'm easily misspelling something here), even though Aachen now is inside German borders. One of my fav painters as well. (and incidentally, Egosoft is from Wurselen, a suburb of Aachen, as its CEO made me notice once!)

What do you mean "now inside German borders"? It's Charlemagne's choice of residence. It's a very old German place. Just like Cologne - noone calls it like that here - it's Köln and Kölle (locally). The old places get awarded own names in other languages.
Hieronimus Bosch was from Bois le Duc btw. - that's French for s'Hertogenbosch.

 

[Lightspeed]

Is there a subforum for t'northerners ?

 

[AkenBosch]

What do you mean "now inside German borders"? It's Charlemagne's choice of residence. It's a very old German place. Just like Cologne - noone calls it like that here - it's Köln and Kölle (locally). The old places get awarded own names in other languages.
Hieronimus Bosch was from Bois le Duc btw. - that's French for s'Hertogenbosch.

Sorry, I thought the "van Aken" part was because it previously was a Dutch town, turns out it never was and I should really go wiki before writing stuff.

Also, still a bit puzzled by Dutch=Aken, German=Aachen, Italian=Aquisgrana.