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Alright, sorry for the capital letters.
You know, everytime you say or think that, I would like you to consider that when we post in English; we do not only have to think and write in another language besides our mother tongue, but we also have to adjust our choice of words and interpretations to that of the American culture, due to the large amount of Americans here (I'm not saying that's a bad thing; if you all had been British, we would've had the same phenomenon, only with British culture - it is natural for the behaviour of a group of people to adjust to the the culture of the language that is spoken, as long as there is a fair amount of native-speakers from a certain culture in that group).
It takes a big effort to do that, and clearly from many a discussion I've had in this place; it's quite impossible to make myself understood the way I would like to, largly because I struggle to do so in any other way but the Dutch way.
It's not just about language. Remember that please, even though I can see it would annoy you to see posts in a language you don't understand.
Excellent hehehe I was wondering who'd do that 
You know, everytime you say or think that, I would like you to consider that when we post in English; we do not only have to think and write in another language besides our mother tongue, but we also have to adjust our choice of words and interpretations to that of the American culture, due to the large amount of Americans here (I'm not saying that's a bad thing; if you all had been British, we would've had the same phenomenon, only with British culture - it is natural for the behaviour of a group of people to adjust to the the culture of the language that is spoken, as long as there is a fair amount of native-speakers from a certain culture in that group).
It takes a big effort to do that, and clearly from many a discussion I've had in this place; it's quite impossible to make myself understood the way I would like to, largly because I struggle to do so in any other way but the Dutch way.
It's not just about language. Remember that please, even though I can see it would annoy you to see posts in a language you don't understand.
++ [ originally posted by AtotheB ] ++
They do that all the time...I just use a translator service to see what they're saying. Can't say it's very nice and truthful.
They do that all the time...I just use a translator service to see what they're saying. Can't say it's very nice and truthful.
