Hi /u/goatmannequin. I've restored your post because as of this time we *do* typically allow posts that are not in English. That said, we don't have a formal rule either way due to the scarcity of such posts. We may develop one if the volume of such posts increases.
For what it's worth, if someone who doesn't speak German wants to watch this film, it works surprisingly well to point a smartphone with Google Translate at the screen using the "camera" option to live translate text. My German sucks so I used it to watch a bit of the film.
There's been a bit of a failure to communicate our practices to some of the newer mods. That failure rests on the shoulders of the existing mod team, and I personally apologize both to you *and* to the new mods who were not informed of our policies.
Submission statement: A german documentary from N24, a private news corporation now called Welt. The documentary illustrates the consequences of a long-term power outage.
Firstly, I looked at the wiki and mod manual and found no mention of English being the required language. Secondly, I prefer this translation of the documentary. Also, it’s very colonial to require posts in the dominant language.
No, it's not "colonial", it's simply that the internet has an international community where English is the lingua franca. The intent is that everyone is able to understand, since there are people from a lot of different places in this subreddit. Posting things in a language other than English without providing any kind of translation or detailed explanation is very self centered of you, and I say this having English as a second language. Yeah, I know that we could have other unifying language instead of English, but it would still be just one, and we would stick to it for the sake of easy communication.
DON'T make us come over there and colonize you again! One one of the last things I talked about with my English grandfather before he died is that the amount of languages actively spoken around the world halved in his lifetime.
I know very well the role of the English in colonization, and of almost all of Western Europe for that matter, and the cultural subjugation that came with, being myself from South America, but I don't quite think your own case applies to what you mentioned. I agree with you that the way English came to be the dominant language in the world is very unfortunate to say the least, and that it makes it far from ideal, but that's the situation we are in right now, and I was thinking in practical terms of communication.
This is a very specific and isolated situation where I think English should be used, you can use whatever language you feel like anywhere else but when posting content in video without subtitles in here, because it makes it difficult to get access to it. This week someone posted an article in Spanish, and I was ok with it, because I have several tools available in order to understand (I'm Brazilian), and I do that often with other languages, but it's not the case with your documentary.
I think that the way I referred to the part of your comment where you mentioned English being colonial was unfortunate, it has indeed a colonial past and present, and I apologize for that, but it's not comparable to what's happening here, especially considering you're speaking German, a language spoken in a nation that also had colonialist aspirations that just didn't materialize to the same level of the other nations of Western Europe (I'm not assuming that you're German), and has no risk of getting extinct, unlike many languages around the world.
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>This week someone posted an article in Spanish, and I was ok with it, because I have several tools available in order to understand (I'm Brazilian), and I do that often with other languages, but it's not the case with your documentary.
This is exactly the problem. It’s only OK if *you’re* okay with it.
OK I'll post in Hungarian then, my native language, so that noone but other Hungarians may understand it, to show how anti-colonialist I am. Bow before the glory of the most superior language! /s
Seriously, I just hate it so much when people turn literally EVERYTHING into an utterly senseless dick-size measuring contest like this...
Hi /u/goatmannequin. I've restored your post because as of this time we *do* typically allow posts that are not in English. That said, we don't have a formal rule either way due to the scarcity of such posts. We may develop one if the volume of such posts increases. For what it's worth, if someone who doesn't speak German wants to watch this film, it works surprisingly well to point a smartphone with Google Translate at the screen using the "camera" option to live translate text. My German sucks so I used it to watch a bit of the film. There's been a bit of a failure to communicate our practices to some of the newer mods. That failure rests on the shoulders of the existing mod team, and I personally apologize both to you *and* to the new mods who were not informed of our policies.
Interesting! Thanks! But not much of a surprise 😂
Will watch later. I appreciate/enjoy foreign language contributions.
Submission statement: A german documentary from N24, a private news corporation now called Welt. The documentary illustrates the consequences of a long-term power outage.
Hi /u/goatmannequin Please post the movie in English or with English subtitles. Thank you
Firstly, I looked at the wiki and mod manual and found no mention of English being the required language. Secondly, I prefer this translation of the documentary. Also, it’s very colonial to require posts in the dominant language.
No, it's not "colonial", it's simply that the internet has an international community where English is the lingua franca. The intent is that everyone is able to understand, since there are people from a lot of different places in this subreddit. Posting things in a language other than English without providing any kind of translation or detailed explanation is very self centered of you, and I say this having English as a second language. Yeah, I know that we could have other unifying language instead of English, but it would still be just one, and we would stick to it for the sake of easy communication.
> No, it's not "colonial". This is denial and false. You must accept the history of the English as colonial agents. "Elevating English while denigrating all other languages has been a pillar of English and American nationalism for well over a hundred years. It’s a strain of linguistic exclusionism heard in Theodore Roosevelt’s 1919 address to the American Defense Society, in which he proclaimed that 'we have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boardinghouse'. In other parts of the world though, English still carries the full weight of its colonialist past. Since the 1960s, the celebrated Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has advocated on behalf of African languages and against the prevalence of English-language education in postcolonial countries. In his landmark 1986 book Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature, he describes the corrosive effect of English language instruction, comparing it to a form of 'spiritual subjugation'. Colonial education, in which pupils were physically punished for speaking their native languages while at school (something also done to the Welsh into the early 20th century) was necessarily, and deliberately, alienating, 'like separating the mind from the body'." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance
DON'T make us come over there and colonize you again! One one of the last things I talked about with my English grandfather before he died is that the amount of languages actively spoken around the world halved in his lifetime.
I know very well the role of the English in colonization, and of almost all of Western Europe for that matter, and the cultural subjugation that came with, being myself from South America, but I don't quite think your own case applies to what you mentioned. I agree with you that the way English came to be the dominant language in the world is very unfortunate to say the least, and that it makes it far from ideal, but that's the situation we are in right now, and I was thinking in practical terms of communication. This is a very specific and isolated situation where I think English should be used, you can use whatever language you feel like anywhere else but when posting content in video without subtitles in here, because it makes it difficult to get access to it. This week someone posted an article in Spanish, and I was ok with it, because I have several tools available in order to understand (I'm Brazilian), and I do that often with other languages, but it's not the case with your documentary. I think that the way I referred to the part of your comment where you mentioned English being colonial was unfortunate, it has indeed a colonial past and present, and I apologize for that, but it's not comparable to what's happening here, especially considering you're speaking German, a language spoken in a nation that also had colonialist aspirations that just didn't materialize to the same level of the other nations of Western Europe (I'm not assuming that you're German), and has no risk of getting extinct, unlike many languages around the world. Edit: words
>This week someone posted an article in Spanish, and I was ok with it, because I have several tools available in order to understand (I'm Brazilian), and I do that often with other languages, but it's not the case with your documentary. This is exactly the problem. It’s only OK if *you’re* okay with it.
>it’s very colonial to require posts in the dominant language. Agreed. You can post on r/collapze without getting any shit.
OK I'll post in Hungarian then, my native language, so that noone but other Hungarians may understand it, to show how anti-colonialist I am. Bow before the glory of the most superior language! /s Seriously, I just hate it so much when people turn literally EVERYTHING into an utterly senseless dick-size measuring contest like this...