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Posted by: AnalogWeapon
Most sites that have forums separate the forums by language. It's well beyond the capabilities of the B.net web crew and moderators to bridge the language gaps for us. The best solution I can think of is for Bungie to create sites for different regions. this would be a lot of work for them, and they'd probably only consider it if they thought there would be enough use. For instance, there could be a site that is a mirror for this site that is called sp.bungie.net, that has all the same content as www.bungie.net (But in Spanish) besides forums: The forums would be fresh new forums where all Spanish speaking Bungie fans could connect. Why is this unlikely? Because the cost to Bungie (i.e. A couple bilingual employees who have the time to do everything the current web crew does, in unison with them) would be large and the interest in the Spanish version would likely not be enough to support that cost.
Not only unlikely, but pointless. Non-English speakers would still gravitate toward the main site, where all the "action" takes place, so to speak. They might use the mirrored alternate-language sites to get their news updates and such, but all forum participation would centralize on the original b.net anyway. That's kind of how I like it -- I'll take the good with the bad.
I think it's kind of lame how English has become the "universal" language, and I am jealous of anyone who can speak more than one language, because that's more languages than I can speak.
"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. . . . And they said, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."
-Genesis Ch. 11
Haha.... Your quote above just reminded me that even the Bible acknowledges the power of universal language. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
[Edited on 04.09.2007 1:27 PM PDT]