If people ask a question in english and you don't fully understand it.. you just say, 'screw it, i don't understand it so i don't care'

Actually, I didn't say "screw it" - you did, so please don't accuse me of having an "attitude". I was simply saying that if you cannot communicate with someone then you probably can't help them, so move on. There are many, many monks from all over the world and it is likely that one of them will be able to help - if only to translate the question and the responses.

In your original post you said "You will miss usefull comments of people that dont speak your language". To which I say "so what, we all do that every day". Google reports there are 500K web pages about Perl written in German, 300K each in Japanese and French, 200K in Russian, 90K in Spanish, 80K in Chinese ... I don't speak any of those languages so I miss out on every single one of those comments.

But I come back to my original point - what solution do you propose? Are you suggesting that everyone should learn English before posting here? I am ashamed to say that I only speak English. I tried (and failed) to learn German at school and it is a much easier language to learn than English (except for that funky gender thing :-)). I have nothing but respect for people who are fluent in multiple languages. That does not mean we should penalise those who are not.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Non-English posts on Perlmonks by grantm
in thread Non-English posts on Perlmonks by Vennis

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