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Cristin Anne ([info]ladysorka) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-30 20:42:00


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We don't need no stinking common language!
AbandonedPlaces is normally a nice, quiet community where people post pictures of derelict and falling apart buildings, which happens to have a large contingent of Russian speaking users. But lately, not so much with the quiet.

This all started with a now deleted post of a picture of the White House, with commentary something along the lines of "I wish this place was abandoned!."

Skyfi_lor makes a reaction post saying that the mods should make new rules not allowing political posts. Faline_eyes immediately responds with I'll second that. however, remember the moderators have been lenient with you too. - "Keep all posts in English.". Skyfi_lor insists he doesn't have time to translate his entries into English, and P.S. I'm dont agree with "Keep all posts in English.". This post actually has a lot of fairly reasonable debate about the English-only rule, and isn't particularly wanky.

The mod makes a post saying that the English-only rule is staying. And cue the wank.

But that's not all! Then Kasmoie makes a post stating that h/s/it is starting a new, open language community. This post cheerfully brings you yet more wank and cat macros.

Just remember, restricting things to English is "chauvenistic and insulting".


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[info]demonbean
2007-05-31 03:55 pm UTC (link)
white people fucking LOVE to think that everything in the world is theirs. wake up and smell the racism: english is not a neutral language. by thinking that it is and passing it off as neutrality, you're actually giving it more power compared to the languages of other cultures.

I ... I think ...

Oh, nevermind. Has anyone mentioned yet that if there were someone in the U.S. of Russian descent wandering around, this guy would consider them white?

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[info]wickedwitch
2007-06-03 02:51 pm UTC (link)
Exactly. Russians are white in general.

Some lj!Russians pull this shit in Bulgarian communities too, so it's not all about challenging teh DOMINATION of the English language.

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