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I have a question for the forum regulars, I just stumbled upon this site/forum and after viewing the 'English side' of the site, I was curious to see what the 'languages side' looked/was like.
And I'm just wondering, why are there so many topics about 'romance/neo-latin' languages and so few about the rest?
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'Cause most of the bods who frequent this forum speak Romance/Neo-Latin lingos, I guess!
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Yeah, but why would they be the most frequent? It's not like the forum discriminates non romance speakers right?
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That sound somewhat odd ... From what I can see by browising through the older topics, it's these people who call themselves Latins who have scarred away most other the non romance posters.How very strange.
Does any of you know a specific reason for this behaviour?
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Just my opinion:
Romance languages are a big area in linguistics. A visit to the foreign language section of any college book store or college library pretty much reveals this.
Nevertheless, one should still feel free to post topics on any foreign language or language family in the world if they like on this site. Anything dealing with the phonetics of any foreign language would be welcome too. Hopefully, at least a few people will answer. If they don't, you kind of have to go by the philosophy that "democracy has spoken" and not let it bother you too much. I think that Tom and MJD would concur here.
Also, things change and just because there are a lot of Romance language buffs and specialists posting on here now doesn't mean that it will always be so.
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>>That sound somewhat odd ... From what I can see by browising through the older topics, it's these people who call themselves Latins who have scarred away most other the non romance posters.How very strange.<<
Yep, they've totally overrun the place, scaring off most of the other users in the process, and Brennus et al have done one bit to stop them.
>>Does any of you know a specific reason for this behaviour?<<
A combination of typical Internet trolling behavior and general chauvinism, often along practically ethnic/racial-type lines.
If it weren't for the lack of mandatory user accounts on here, I would say ban every last one of these sorts (no, I don't mean you greg). And even still, I don't see why Brennus et al don't ban (all) the IPs used by these sorts.
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Travis,
Feel free to post as much material on Teutonic (Germanic) languages and dialects or phonetics as you like and I'm sure it would help balance out the forum a little more.
I was an Esperanto / Romance language-freak myself in my late teens and early twenties. As I got older, I branched out to other kinds of languages. I have a hunch that some of these "Latin" guys eventually will too.
As a moderator on this forum, I actually have a 0-tolerance policy towards any messages that are transparently trollish and even got accused of "Fascistic control" by one person for doing so. However. I concur with MJD that you have to treat some stuff as free speech too even if you don't quite like it or agree with it.
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Brennus,
You wrote:
>>Also, things change and just because there are a lot of Romance language buffs and specialists posting on here now doesn't mean that it will always be so.<<
And I would agree, nothing lasts forever, but from what I can see these 'Latins' aren't specialists or buffs.To be honest with you, and after reading through the average "Latins is better than Englis/Germanic"* post, they look more like troubled teens or adolecents to me.
*They seem(ed) to hate these languages more than the rest.
Travis,
I'm wondering as well why moderators, (I don't know who or how many there are) did not bann these people if (and I believe you) "they" completely ran over the place.
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<<And I would agree, nothing lasts forever, but from what I can see these 'Latins' aren't specialists or buffs.>>
<<I'm wondering as well why moderators, (I don't know who or how many there are) did not bann these people if (and I believe you) "they" completely ran over the place.>>
It seems you became what you don't like.
<<From what I can see by browising through the older topics, it's these people who call themselves Latins who have scarred away most other the non romance posters.>>
You didn't know Sander. This guy really hates romance languages.
<<And I'm just wondering, why are there so many topics about 'romance/neo-latin' languages and so few about the rest? >>
I think the reason is that there are more romance language speakers (after English) than any other so it's natural to see more postings about it.
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Aldo_b,
You wrote:
>>It seems you became what you don't like.<<
Which I don't understand.What are you trying to say here?
>>You didn't know Sander. This guy really hates romance languages<<
Although his name occurs in many of the 'fights' I saw in the archives, I wouldn't say he hated (past tense, I think he left the forum) romance languages, I can't seem to find a post where he says that, I think he just wanted to get ridd of these latin trolls.
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Ah but he who hates romance is a cynic and will die a bachelor, neh? ;)
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Thijs kuiken, were you trying to be funny?
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<<Thijs kuiken, were you trying to be funny?>>
Well, duh. Of course he was. A good thing too - we need some humour on this forum.
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>>It seems you became what you don't like.<<
<<Which I don't understand.What are you trying to say here? >>
Tell me if I'm wrong but I find your comments (and from other) as discriminating and repressive as the ones you criticise. It seems some would like to start a witch hunt against latin language speakers because there are "too much" around here.
<<Although his name occurs in many of the 'fights' I saw in the archives, I wouldn't say he hated (past tense, I think he left the forum) romance languages, I can't seem to find a post where he says that, I think he just wanted to get ridd of these latin trolls.>>
He never said it but it was way clear for everybody. I don't like to sound resentful but things calmed down once he left the forum.
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