The Glade 4.0

There is a game I play on Facebook (yeah, I know, I know...) called Zombie Lane...it's run by Digital Chocolate and so are the forums. Someone posted a question in Spanish the other day, and I answered it in Spanish since I knew the answer and the language. (The game has versions in Spanish and German, that I know of. Not sure which other languages it supports, but those two for sure.)
Anyway, the moderator came in and informed us that using any language other than English in the forums is against the rules because "not everyone can read it" and those who speak a foreign language must use a google translator to pose their question in English, and then, I presume, take all the responses and post them one by one into the translator to try and make sense of it...
That's retarded.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Por que no contesta la pregunta en Ingles? Esta es los Estados Unidos! Todos hablan Ingles, no? Verdad? Es un chingo extranjero, de Mexico o de Guatemala, si ellos no estaban preguntando los pregutas en Ingles! Sucio mojados!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

S'il vous plaît ne pas parler n'importe quelle langue, mais en français sur ce forum. Ce n'est pas juste pour les francophones qui pourraient être cachés sur le bord.

How about posting your answer in Spanish and also providing an English translation in the same post.

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Their bytes their rules, provided they are clearly posted somewhere.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

this

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

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I wonder, did they explain this to the original poster in Spanish? If not s/he likely did not have a clue about what they were saying.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

Sure, they can set whatever rules they like, but that doesn't mean that those rules aren't retarded when you sell Spanish localized versions of your product.

Probably their angle is that their moderators can't read <foo>, so you can't speak <foo>. But really that's just an admission that they'd like to make money by selling to foreign markets, but they don't want to spend any money hiring moderators/support staff that can speak their respective languages. Classy, that.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

You pretty much hit the nail on the head there...the moderator came back and explained (in both Spanish and English) the forum rules, and then in the next post went on to say that the moderators only know English, and they have to be aware of if any foul language is being used and they can't rely on online-translators for all of the bad stuff....but yeah, that's the part I think is retarded. If you are going to release the game in several different languages, your forums should *support* those languages, not ban them.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Chinga forums, Ouey! Pinche moderators no comprende las palabras tascadas!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Oye, Guero, que significa "tascadas?"

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Tascada es misma de sucia, mas o menos.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Ah, bueno.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I'd like to complain to the moderator...

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

cállate tu boca, gringo!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

El pelerojo dijo que mi esposo es gringo, cuando mi esposo es pelemoreno/casi negro? Jajajajaja!
Mi esposo no sabe ningun palabra en espanol (pues, tal vez "taco" o algo asi, jajaja!), pero el sabe bien como usar las paginas de traducir del internet....cuidate amigo mio!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Pelerojo that my husband is Gringo, where said my husband is pelemoreno/nearly black? Jajajajaja! My husband doesn' t know each possible word in Spanish (because possibly ' taco' or somewhat so, lol!), but can sides use, around the millions to translate Internet… cuidate friend!

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

ROFL!!!! Ok, those online translators are TERRIBLE!!!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

The redhead says my husband is a gringo, when he is brown haired and very dark. Hahahahaha! My husband doesn't know any words in Spanish (except maybe "taco" or other similar words, hahaha) but he knows how to use internet translators... careful, my friend!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Much better.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Only slightly NSFW: bikini clad women, Jennifer Lopez's butt and male nipple

EDIT - the initial image when the video is linked is bare midriff.


Song by a member of the local morning show crew

Espanol by MC Corky (Not the dude in the video)

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

This one is much funnier, Foamy:

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

"No remembro how to say 11"...I ALOLed. You are correct, this one was funnier.

I never took spanish, but I understood just about all of those.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Hahahaha! Yeah, that was viral my senior year in college among all the Spanish majors...we were cracking up like crazy!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth