I find the whole thing quite offensive...
Think back to school. You have a Common Room, its a place you go to chat with your friends, in the same place as everyone else, whether you like them or not. If you want to go elsewhere to chat, you can.
The English district has instead been changed to common... we have no choice in the matter. We have no place else to go... we have simply been called 'common' and left to it.
The fact they called it a Common District is more of the problem. Common is probably more insulting to the English playings than it is to the rest of the world.
I see no logical reason as to why they changed it. Sure they may have wanted to bring 'International' style districts closer to home to reduce the lag... but changing the English district to been Common wasn't the solution.
Common Districts->Anets Joke Right?
Evilsod
Bithor the Dog
Never had a common room at my school we just chatted....
Really this is getting blown out of proportion. Its a simple name change to districts....if we had kept english then the slovinians, romanians, greeks, and just about any other race without thier own district, that means they got the right to come in here and complain then, because they feel justified that they have been dealt a racial blow.....jeeeez...
Fine put in a complaint...will it make your game any more enjoyable or is it just making people vent their spleens a little more. Me i couldnt care less as it doesnt effect my game...if they started charging subscriptions then yeah i would say something, but this is over the top , mountain out of a molehill stuff.
Really this is getting blown out of proportion. Its a simple name change to districts....if we had kept english then the slovinians, romanians, greeks, and just about any other race without thier own district, that means they got the right to come in here and complain then, because they feel justified that they have been dealt a racial blow.....jeeeez...
Fine put in a complaint...will it make your game any more enjoyable or is it just making people vent their spleens a little more. Me i couldnt care less as it doesnt effect my game...if they started charging subscriptions then yeah i would say something, but this is over the top , mountain out of a molehill stuff.
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Yes,english is the worlds number one language and this is why ppl think of it as common.
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My personal feelings towards this issue are that it is unfair that English speakers do not have their own clearly dedicated district, since we are all equal why should French and German have dedicated districts when English don't? It seems clear that the Common districts are intended to be English, since they replace the English districts and England residents are automatically sent there. I do feel that the name is slightly negative since people can easily see that common can be used in a derogatory context.
That this is not the first definition in the dictionary has little bearing on the meaning people choose to infer.
The fairest way to do things would be to give every language its own district, however this would be very impractical, even having English and common would be stretching the players too thinly.
I think it is better for those that do not have a dedicated district for their primary language, to have a "Universal" European district. Whilst common may not be the best name, it will do. There will always be some people unhappy, I guess this time its the English speakers.
Evilsod
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Really this is getting blown out of proportion. Its a simple name change to districts....if we had kept english then the slovinians, romanians, greeks, and just about any other race without thier own district, that means they got the right to come in here and complain then, because they feel justified that they have been dealt a racial blow.....jeeeez...
Fine put in a complaint...will it make your game any more enjoyable or is it just making people vent their spleens a little more. Me i couldnt care less as it doesnt effect my game...if they started charging subscriptions then yeah i would say something, but this is over the top , mountain out of a molehill stuff. |
Its a bit much to interpret it like that, but its still unfair if they remove our own district.
Curse You
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Yes,english is the worlds number one language and this is why ppl think of it as common.I rather see russians get their own district.
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eightyfour-onesevenfive
I already posted this over in the Sanitarium, I'll post it here again...
I see it this way: The english districts always were the common districts. All Anet did was name them appropriately. Every player who's local setting didn't match one of the specific language districts was by default placed in the english districts. No change there. I highly doubt that there is a lot more non-english conversation going on now in the common districts than when they were called english.
Actually, I couldn't care less about how the districts are called. Call them "Strawberry", "Chocolate" and "Vanilla", if you like!
Or get rid of them altogether and have only common districts.
But for what it's worth, I would see no harm in having both common and english districts.
I see it this way: The english districts always were the common districts. All Anet did was name them appropriately. Every player who's local setting didn't match one of the specific language districts was by default placed in the english districts. No change there. I highly doubt that there is a lot more non-english conversation going on now in the common districts than when they were called english.
Actually, I couldn't care less about how the districts are called. Call them "Strawberry", "Chocolate" and "Vanilla", if you like!
But for what it's worth, I would see no harm in having both common and english districts.
Bithor the Dog
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Actually, the number one is Mandarin. Followed afterwards by Arabic and Spanish.
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I would think that the distribution of english would count towards the districts blah blah....etcetc
@ evilsod..
I am stunned at the reaction..really, is there any need for such a huge OVER reaction on most peoples part....
What next, we site ANET for racial slurring and start bringing a class action in the european court of human rights?
People can interpret it how they like, but in the end it was nothing more than a name change and not the over reactive hype of making out that any race, country, district, county, town or street was in any way greater or lesser than the next. You even state its a bit much, so why say it? just leave it and go play, after all isnt that why we bought the bloomin game?
(and yeah ive finished playing at 1:30 am after a 6 hour playing time so im chin wagging)
Question, does it make a difference?
Dev121
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Actually, the number one is Mandarin. Followed afterwards by Arabic and Spanish.
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It would be nice for one of the game managament team to come on and explain why theyve done this , justification from the source is whats important of course. Although there is little valid reason to remove ones district to make it name open ended. Maybe they just dont like the english
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Correct. However there is more non-English conversation there than there is non-French in the French district and non-German in the german districts etc., which is why I agree with you that there should be a common AND English district.
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My personal feelings towards this issue are that it is unfair that English speakers do not have their own clearly dedicated district, since we are all equal why should French and German have dedicated districts when English don't?
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The English Districts, however, were a mix of all other people who didn't fit in the non-English districts. If you split out English from Common, English would be very empty, and Common would most likely be very crowded, still, and there would still be spoken English, in order to understand each other. Or, of course, the people would stay in English Districts, in order to communicate and trade and look for parties etc.
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It seems clear that the Common districts are intended to be English, since they replace the English districts and England residents are automatically sent there. I do feel that the name is slightly negative since people can easily see that common can be used in a derogatory context.
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The fairest way to do things would be to give every language its own district, however this would be very impractical, even having English and common would be stretching the players too thinly.
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I think it is better for those that do not have a dedicated district for their primary language, to have a "Universal" European district. Whilst common may not be the best name, it will do. There will always be some people unhappy, I guess this time its the English speakers.
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But what if there were both an English district and Common?
In the English District, people would just speak English... But in the Common districts, 20 different languages would be spoken through each other. Or, of course, everyone chose to keep speaking English, so that everyone could understand each other.
Or, of course, everyone would just go to the English districts. Whatever the situation, the Common District would be useless, cause without English, the District would be chaotic. This is why they also changed English district, I think. So that people would keep speaking English, but not only people from England would be here.
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Actually, the number one is Mandarin. Followed afterwards by Arabic and Spanish.
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The thing that worries me is now they've abolished the "English" district the "Common" district might degenerate in to oodles of different languages being spammed and that would have a negative affect on the community.. and it saddens me that yes I'm from the UK and my language doesn't have a district no more.. (but that's okay because English people aren't aloud to be offended by anything and should shut up complaining, right?)
The whole decision is bizarre.. They gave Russian' and Polish people their own district then renamed ours to "Common" I mean what is the point..
Frostlight
The West Lothian question comes to GW.
warren_kn
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The West Lothian question comes to GW.
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Sophitia Leafblade
The International Districts should really be the "common" districts rather than the english districts, since theres more of a mix of languages there. However as it is i have no problems in the English districts being the "common" district since anyone who doesnt have a specific district generally joins in the english one such as the Aussies and Dutch etc. etc. Although it may not be the most common Language English general is the most used for international Purposes (although i have no proof of that other than experience).
Cebe
/vote for there to be an English District and a Common District on the European servers.
Would that not solve most problems?
Would that not solve most problems?
Skuld
There is no change at all.. you do know that right? They renamed the dist, but the same people are there as before..
Clord
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/vote for there to be an English District and a Common District on the European servers.
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anshin
so much fuss about it...
simply suggest english dis should be added... no matter how much you'll discuss it won't make it happen faster...
i vote for making districts for some more languages... at least in europe servers... i don't know the language situation outside europe... but europe has too many languages and important ones passing by... and that shouldn't happen...
i vote for districts for every language spoken in europe districts... specially portuguese xD
and i like empty districts... i always go to the highest number district when i go to a major city... its really cool to see ToA with just one or two persons...
simply suggest english dis should be added... no matter how much you'll discuss it won't make it happen faster...
i vote for making districts for some more languages... at least in europe servers... i don't know the language situation outside europe... but europe has too many languages and important ones passing by... and that shouldn't happen...
i vote for districts for every language spoken in europe districts... specially portuguese xD
and i like empty districts... i always go to the highest number district when i go to a major city... its really cool to see ToA with just one or two persons...
Effendi Westland
Reinstate the english district and keep the common one. But I do not want to be in a common district 
Alternatively...rename the common district to the royal district.
Alternatively...rename the common district to the royal district.
kade
ITT people who have time to complain about the NAME of the room in which they are chatting. In the long list of things to complain about, is this really worth it? Choose your battles people...
DeXyre
If they added a Dutch district, I'd still prefer to go to the Common (or English) district myself...
And I simply don't understand what all the fuss is about... It's just a name change, it's not like people who weren't there before now suddenly decide to come...
And I simply don't understand what all the fuss is about... It's just a name change, it's not like people who weren't there before now suddenly decide to come...
Cebe
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There is no change at all.. you do know that right? They renamed the dist, but the same people are there as before..
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Not really. Then other people remain Common district while someones go to English district. It make districts even more empty.
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Ability to search across multiple districts ftw!
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And I simply don't understand what all the fuss is about...
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Gli
Some semantics:
"Common district" implies that the district is common, whichever meaning of the word common you chose to read into it. It says nothing of the people spending time there. A district for common people, derogatory meaning implied, would be called a "Commoner's district". That's not what it's called, so that's not what it is, nor what's implied.
Interpreting the name "Common district" as a slight to the quality of the people sent there upon logging on to the game, that's just failing at English.
"Common district" implies that the district is common, whichever meaning of the word common you chose to read into it. It says nothing of the people spending time there. A district for common people, derogatory meaning implied, would be called a "Commoner's district". That's not what it's called, so that's not what it is, nor what's implied.
Interpreting the name "Common district" as a slight to the quality of the people sent there upon logging on to the game, that's just failing at English.
Eroth
I can see why all the Euros are saying, "There's no district for us" or w/e, yet you still dominate HA for more than have the day, EVERYDAY. I don't think the language difference is slowing you down, prolly just annoying.
And this isn't "American thinking" it's logical thinking and economic thinking. Anet wants to put the Euro contries together to improve the general friendship between eachother. Ok I know that you may not understand german or french that well, but if absolutely EVERYONE had thier own server, for EVERY town, thats gonna add up to a LOT of servers and space used up. If you want to fix the problem, send money to Anet and tell them to make more servers.
And why are you ppl get mad over "common"? SO what if they name a sever something simple at the time? play the flipping game and worry about your district's name later.
~Eroth [SOUL]
And this isn't "American thinking" it's logical thinking and economic thinking. Anet wants to put the Euro contries together to improve the general friendship between eachother. Ok I know that you may not understand german or french that well, but if absolutely EVERYONE had thier own server, for EVERY town, thats gonna add up to a LOT of servers and space used up. If you want to fix the problem, send money to Anet and tell them to make more servers.
And why are you ppl get mad over "common"? SO what if they name a sever something simple at the time? play the flipping game and worry about your district's name later.
~Eroth [SOUL]
tacitus
If I were to make a comment that was seen to be offensive to a particular nationality or group of people my post would be deleted as soon a s a mod noticed and rightly so. Even if most people from that country were not offended the post would be deleted in case offense was caused. At no point would a dictionary be consulted to see how likely offense would be caused and there would be no debate on the forums about the likely hood of offense.
However in this case a lot of English speakers do feel offended. Telling them to stop whining and get over it is unfair because that implies that everyone else who feels offended by any comment in future should also get over it and stop whining
Now i am Scottish and there is a tendency for people to call us ginger haired skirt wearing barbarians, imagine this was posted on guru for a second. Now some people will be offended by this. Even tho most of us aren't ginger haired or wear kilts that often and we sure as hell don't run around with claymores anymore. However if someone was offended by a statement like that and said so the post would be deleted. There would not be people working out what percentage of Scots wear kilts on a monthly basis there wont be people telling the offended person that they should stop whining etc.
There should be an English speaking district along with the common one so that people get the choice.
However in this case a lot of English speakers do feel offended. Telling them to stop whining and get over it is unfair because that implies that everyone else who feels offended by any comment in future should also get over it and stop whining
Now i am Scottish and there is a tendency for people to call us ginger haired skirt wearing barbarians, imagine this was posted on guru for a second. Now some people will be offended by this. Even tho most of us aren't ginger haired or wear kilts that often and we sure as hell don't run around with claymores anymore. However if someone was offended by a statement like that and said so the post would be deleted. There would not be people working out what percentage of Scots wear kilts on a monthly basis there wont be people telling the offended person that they should stop whining etc.
There should be an English speaking district along with the common one so that people get the choice.
Utaku
You native English people are just a bunch of commoners, and that's it.
Seriously, I just don't get how a district name and people typing in a different language can hurt your feelings.
Seriously, I just don't get how a district name and people typing in a different language can hurt your feelings.
Etta
well in that case, let's switch French district in to common then. How's that hot shot?
bhavv
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Seriously, I just don't get how a district name and people typing in a different language can hurt your feelings.
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Maybe they should just rename french and german districts to Rare then for people that dont speak 'common' english?
phoenixar
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I can see why all the Euros are saying, "There's no district for us" or w/e, yet you still dominate HA for more than have the day, EVERYDAY. I don't think the language difference is slowing you down, prolly just annoying.
And this isn't "American thinking" it's logical thinking and economic thinking. Anet wants to put the Euro contries together to improve the general friendship between eachother. Ok I know that you may not understand german or french that well, but if absolutely EVERYONE had thier own server, for EVERY town, thats gonna add up to a LOT of servers and space used up. If you want to fix the problem, send money to Anet and tell them to make more servers. And why are you ppl get mad over "common"? SO what if they name a sever something simple at the time? play the flipping game and worry about your district's name later. ~Eroth [SOUL] |
They're not putting the "Euro" countries together.. in fact they just added 2 more districts for Polish and Russian.. all the other districts (French, German, Spanish etc) still exist except English has been renamed Common.
I'm starting to get annoyed by this kind of thing.. they don't seem to care that we might be offended.. English is from England.. it's not Europe's common tongue.. there's only the UK and Ireland which have English as their official language. I'm starting to think Americans think France, Germany, and Spain speak their own languages and everyone else speaks "English" now renamed "Common"..
Anyway I'm rambling so I'll stop now. Would be nice if they could give a reason for doing this.
Moa Bird Cultist
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I can see why all the Euros are saying, "There's no district for us" or w/e, yet you still dominate HA for more than have the day, EVERYDAY. I don't think the language difference is slowing you down, prolly just annoying.
And this isn't "American thinking" it's logical thinking and economic thinking. Anet wants to put the Euro contries together to improve the general friendship between eachother. Ok I know that you may not understand german or french that well, but if absolutely EVERYONE had thier own server, for EVERY town, thats gonna add up to a LOT of servers and space used up. If you want to fix the problem, send money to Anet and tell them to make more servers. And why are you ppl get mad over "common"? SO what if they name a sever something simple at the time? play the flipping game and worry about your district's name later. ~Eroth [SOUL] |
Also, in my view: Common -> Common Room -> Bunch of juvenile delinquents. So in my view, ArenaNet consider all their British players to be little 13 year old thugs, great... [/sarcasm]
Torikae
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Ok I know that you may not understand german or french that well, but if absolutely EVERYONE had thier own server, for EVERY town, thats gonna add up to a LOT of servers and space used up.
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There is a German district, and a French district.
There is no longer an English district. And this is what the fuss is about.
I know, it's not that big a deal, and there much more important things to be worrying about, but I can understand where most people here are coming from.
I think it's only polite, after all, when visiting another district that one does their best to speak in that language. For example, if I were to go to a German district in search of a party, I would do my best to communicate in German. The same used to be expected of people coming to the English districts (though of course wasn't always the case).
In this sense, I think a 'common' district is a step in the right direction for those who don't have their own districts yet - Somewhere where they should not feel pressed into conversing in another language.
HOWEVER, I don't see why this should require the English district to be replaced, especially since it is home to a large proportion of the European player base. It suggests a false assumption that everyone in Europe is happy to speak English.
Ultimately, it would be nice (though perhaps impractical) for every European language to have their own district in game - so that everyone could have a 'home' district.
It seems very much a step in the wrong direction to take our home district away from us.
milias
Okay, I just opened this thread. I read through a couple of pages, and I still have no idea what the original change was. Can anyone tell me what ANet changed? Thanks.
warren_kn
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Okay, I just opened this thread. I read through a couple of pages, and I still have no idea what the original change was. Can anyone tell me what ANet changed? Thanks.
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Gli
Basically, all that happened was, the "E" got changed into a "C", they moved the "n" to the very end, the "g" was replaced by a "o", they completely dropped the "l", and turned the "ish" into "mmo". The nerve of these ANet people.
What about the Welsh?
What about the Welsh?
Sleeper Service
I live in Tolerance, i've made numerous requests to the Mayor to stop all other non Tolarian dialects from being used within the city of Tolerance and to send whoever does not comply off to their respective towns/countries where they can talk all they want with people who can understand them.
I don't understand why my letters keep on being ignored, after all it seems perfectly reasonable to me! Everywhere i go my senses are assaulted by strange accents and undecipherable gobolldeegook which results in me being unable to clearly communicate with new people that i would dearly like to talk to! if only i could be assured that they spoke Tolarian then we could all save so much time and i just know, we would all get along so much better.
I remember back in the days when our city was called Segregation, It was all so much better then. We all lived in harmony things got done If one needed directions or advice on something we could allways ask anyone in the street and recive constuctive and helpfull advice. when we couldn't understand someone we simply and gently reminded them that they should get out of our town before things got ugly.
I resent having had to give up my Segregatian idendity. i feel like i have been abased in having to be part of this new fangled "Tolarian" community. No matter what politicians tell us, It's not the same! i no longer feel like i belong. Maybe what i'll do is change places. Find somewhere which i can call home, This city is simply no longer good enough for me.
I don't understand why my letters keep on being ignored, after all it seems perfectly reasonable to me! Everywhere i go my senses are assaulted by strange accents and undecipherable gobolldeegook which results in me being unable to clearly communicate with new people that i would dearly like to talk to! if only i could be assured that they spoke Tolarian then we could all save so much time and i just know, we would all get along so much better.
I remember back in the days when our city was called Segregation, It was all so much better then. We all lived in harmony things got done If one needed directions or advice on something we could allways ask anyone in the street and recive constuctive and helpfull advice. when we couldn't understand someone we simply and gently reminded them that they should get out of our town before things got ugly.
I resent having had to give up my Segregatian idendity. i feel like i have been abased in having to be part of this new fangled "Tolarian" community. No matter what politicians tell us, It's not the same! i no longer feel like i belong. Maybe what i'll do is change places. Find somewhere which i can call home, This city is simply no longer good enough for me.
HawkofStorms
As an American, I had no knowledge of the apparent, somewhat duragatory nature of the term "common."
Anyway, I agree that this is a stupid change. It could have easily been renamed "British" (if you wanted to avoid annoying the Scots and the Welsh).
This isn't the Star Wars universe where there is such a language as "Basic." English is still the name of the ENGLISH langauge. Such phrases as Homer Simpson's "English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England?" are meant as a joke
Anyway, I agree that this is a stupid change. It could have easily been renamed "British" (if you wanted to avoid annoying the Scots and the Welsh).
This isn't the Star Wars universe where there is such a language as "Basic." English is still the name of the ENGLISH langauge. Such phrases as Homer Simpson's "English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England?" are meant as a joke
Lauryn
There would be the exact same reaction from any of the other European countries, people who are saying that we are whining really don't get the point.
Yes many languages do not have their own home district, and I welcome the idea of a multi-lingual district, yet removing our home district (or just renaming it as some people claim) to do this I find offensive. OK, so if the English are not allowed a home district why should the French of Germans have one? Why are they better than us?
To me, calling someone 'common' is offensive, it refers to my background (calling me working class), my income, type of job and general lifestyle. I am not 'common as muck' as the phrase goes. While you may not think that a 'common district' is calling someone common, it is. French districts are for French speaking people, German for German speakers and 'Common' for the leftovers.
There is no 'Common' language, So why take our home district away from us? Why not add a correctly named Multi-Lingual district rather than insulting us.
Yes many languages do not have their own home district, and I welcome the idea of a multi-lingual district, yet removing our home district (or just renaming it as some people claim) to do this I find offensive. OK, so if the English are not allowed a home district why should the French of Germans have one? Why are they better than us?
To me, calling someone 'common' is offensive, it refers to my background (calling me working class), my income, type of job and general lifestyle. I am not 'common as muck' as the phrase goes. While you may not think that a 'common district' is calling someone common, it is. French districts are for French speaking people, German for German speakers and 'Common' for the leftovers.
There is no 'Common' language, So why take our home district away from us? Why not add a correctly named Multi-Lingual district rather than insulting us.
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Dutch, Portugues, Swedish, Finnish, etc. never had their own servers!
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That abuse is as pathetic and immature as the complaints on this thread about the renaming of the English district.
The European Union is a big place with many languages. If you don't like it, don't travel and don't play online games. The experience may just force you to open your mind some.
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There would be the exact same reaction from any of the other European countries, people who are saying that we are whining really don't get the point.
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Btw, it wasnt named for a country but for a language, which means NOT 'foreigners are not welcome' but 'the preferred language here is english'. Note the word 'preferred', its not mandatory and never was.
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Sounds to me like we have little in 'common'
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I've partied with Russians, Slovenians, Swiss, French, German, Dutch, English, Welsh, American, Chinese, Spanish and probably some other nationalities I never knew about but we all had one thing in common...We spoke English.
warren_kn
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Yes, all of those people have to play on European servers in districts previously designated English 1, English 2 etc. Many of those people have had to put up with a tremendous amount of abuse for speaking their own language on their own server, because the district was called English.
That abuse is as pathetic and immature as the complaints on this thread about the renaming of the English district. The European Union is a big place with many languages. If you don't like it, don't travel and don't play online games. The experience may just force you to open your mind some. |
@ Tijger - same goes to you as well actually. And if you want to go into politics, yes there were a lot of concerns about being a part of the EU, the common market and the Euro (which as may know we opted not to be a part of).
To sum up for those who still don't understand the complaints: there exists districts for speakers of Spanish, French, German and Italian. There will be Russian and Polish districts. There used to be a district for English speakers. "Giveth with one hand taketh with the other?" Why have speakers of some languages been given their own district while speakers of another have had theirs taken away.
Before anyone says "ah yes but you still speak your language in the common dis.", yes that's true. However in the other districts it's expected that the only language spoken is French, German etc. In the now Common district there are still several languages being spoken. I thought that the reason that the different districts were installed in he first place was to enable people to communicate with eachother easier.
Either have districts for all languages or none at all, not halfway.