[Gerben]

Would you like to see a Dutch forum?​

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..	2	66.67%

 

[Gerben]

Is it possible to make a dutch forum for people coming from the Netherlands or Belguim?

 

[Mike]

Depends how many of you lot there are Attach a poll to this post and if there's enough people shouting out then I'd be happy to create a dedicated Dutch forum.

 

[Gerben]

How i create a poll?

 

[Mp4]

@gerbenat the top of the page, above your 1st post but under all the advertisements , there is link that says Thread Tools. click that link ( it will drop down )one of the choices is create a pollGood Luck

 

[Mike]

Just did it for you.

 

[lawman]

Who bothers to vote "no"...?Like: "It would affect my life significantly and deeply offend me if a dutch forum were created. We must let their language die its own death naturally..." Really?

 

[TomZ]

I voted no. I'm Dutch myself, and I think having a Dutch forum would be counter-productive: First, nearly every Dutchmen is able to read/write English reasonably well and only a small amount of the internet population is Dutch so a Dutch forum would get very little traffic, if any. Second, I think it is important to keep information widely available and encouraging people to write it in such a non-widespread language when it isn't totally necessary doesn't help.In Germany and Spanish-speaking countries, the level of English education seems much less. Also, there are far more Spanish/German speakers than there are Dutch. Consequently, for those languages having a forum generates more information than is made inaccessible by it being in a language not readable to most forum users.

 

[lawman]

What do you call someone who speaks three languages?--trilingualWhat do you call someone who speaks two languages?--bilingualWhat do you call someone who speaks one language?American.

 

[synonymous]

What do you call someone who speaks three languages?--trilingualWhat do you call someone who speaks two languages?--bilingualWhat do you call someone who speaks one language?American.

Way to insult the majority of the users here.

 

[lawman]

I'm IN the majority of users here... It's a common European joke about Americans. Where they live people travel between countries all the time and are forced to learn several languages. Many Americans never even STUDY a second language, much less travel and use one.