Have you ever played once in PS? In thoose servers people from quite different nationalities and languages coexisted with no problems and play together, wich IMHO it’s better because encourages people to meet new friends and discover that, indeed, we are no so different… Are you telling us that it’s impossible in Classic WoW?
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Wrong. Only around 56%.
France is 39%
Spain has 22% of the population who can speak English.
Prejudice has many colours, shapes and forms.
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I remember very well that the private servers were full of hatred for one another that refused to speak English, and the admins were quick to ban if you didn’t. The Chinese were a huge enclave on those servers and made it very frustrating to play with as they didnt speak English.
People should play wherever they want, independently of what language they speak.
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While I agree with you and think “racist” has become the most overused, most meaningless word in 2019, I also think it’s equally bad to group all white people together as one big monolithic group. That’s exactly the kind of mentality the people who think white men are the devil, have. The people who say “check your privilege, whitey” unironically.
That being said, I agree that speaking English in General chat is common courtesy. I’m Dutch, and whenever I meet other Dutch people in General and they start speaking Dutch to me, I always refuse to follow their example. I will always speak English in General, even to other Dutch people. It’s just common decency.
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I think he meant in the public channels
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“Decency” and “common courtesy” are very subjective and vary across cultural contexts. It is a bit problematic to start judging others’ behaviours through your cultural lens.
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That’s not his point. Same as OP said, even when they do in fact speak English, most of the time they prefer NOT to. I see this a LOT, especially in general in Silverpine. Spanish people seem to generally prefer conversing in their own language regardless of whether the majority of them speak English or not, which is absolutely fine, had they had their own servers. There’s a good reason why Russian, French, Italian and so servers exist. Maybe it’s not a problem on your realm as much it is on Golemagg, but I have so many people on my ignore list that just simply REFUSED to speak English even when asked to speak in whisper in Spanish. It’s unfair towards the other players, these are English servers, English is an international language, and it’s the one that should be spoken all across the game, otherwise, just /join Spanish or something. It almost feels like Golemagg is a Spanish realm at this point, lol
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They’re not talking to her though, so what’s the problem?
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They’re speaking in Public chats. That’s speaking to -everyone-.
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Also people should use their own channels, guilds or even whispers to communicatio then. Its the same on Dreadmist with alliance being spammed in Spanish in starting zones etc. Why not just group up with people you can speak with then? But again, there should be a Spanish server atleast
You’re being ridiculous right now.
I’m pretty sure speaking English in an English server is not exclusively a Dutch thing, nor would I say that requesting such is “judging others’ behaviors through your cultural lens”.
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Imagine if on this entire post, we’d all be spamming things in our native language assuming you’d simply understand it.
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it’s against the server rules. CBA researching where exactly this is specified, but you’re supposed to use the server’s language in the public chat (so if you’re on an English realm, use English, etc). It’s not a bannable offence though.
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Can understand a wall of unknown langue can be somewhat annoying.
And makes one kinda disconnect/ uninvited feel from the community - like literally one simple do not not understand a thing what people talks about,
I personaly think that chat channels such as General should be English only.
Or they make a /Spanish chat channel,
I personaly also i have encounter lots these invidual players specially on Golemagg can write, talk english well but yet does not choose to do that
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Ignore the Trolls Valrysha.
As a player who isn’t native english:
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linking stuff in chat and no one understands because the name is different.
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people tend to spam chat when they find someone else from their country. this is due to a “sense of belonging”. Most often it will be in public channels like trade, which are not meant to be used for chat.
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She is not being racist. For a long time some portuguese plagued every chat until Blizzard decided to give them a portuguese server. I’m portuguese so don’t even call me racist.
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It’s against server rules. Simple as that. And it is better to give them a place to be, than reporting and banning them for not following the rules.
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It’s absolutely fine to not be able to speak English, sure, the game can be translated into Spanish, but do not expect for it to be okay to go on a general public chat and speak Spanish to every other Spanish person on there, it’s simply wrong, and rude. No matter what language it is, even when advertising, you should be saying stuff like “(guild) is a Spanish speaking guild, recruiting new players, etc etc” and then IN the guild chat, speak all the espanol you want, buddy.
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It’s also on Shazzrah like this and it’s not even the server which got ‘claimed’ (Firemaw) by the Spanish…
I think it’s more than obvious there is more than enough Spanish speaking players to open up Spanish realms.
Other positive thing about this, this will make queueueueues for all other servers shorter 
Not only does speaking a foreign language in an English General chat feel uninviting, the Spanish often start talking trash about you and making fun of you if you politely ask them to converse in English when conversing in General. My Spanish isn’t great, but it’s good enough to understand when they’re just plain being rude. They’re being rude by speaking Spanish in General, and they’re being rude to people who politely request them to switch to English.
See, I don’t even really understand the people who defend this behavior. As someone else said, imagine if we all started posting in our native tongue on here.
Weetje wat? Ik ga vanaf nu al mijn comments in het Nederlands schrijven. Kijken hoe dat uit zal pakken. Dit is prima toch? Totaal niet vreemd of egoïstisch om in het Nederlands te spreken op een Engels forum, of wel dan?
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