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Originally Posted by subaquaticus
If DB ambitions to open to the freediving community, then linguistic diversity should be set up...
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I think there is a risk potential officially opening db to other languages. People who can communicate in english might choose to communicate in their native tongue because it's easier. The people who can't speak that language will be withheld from this information, and that's kinda contradictory to the existence of db - maximizing freediving information sharing since 1998 or so
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On the other hand, it might bring new users to db and help to promote freediving to non-english speakers. Then again, db hosting language based forums is a good way to decentralize the collective information.
I can't even start to imagine how this place looked if people such as Eric Fattah or Seb Murat had chosen to post in the Korean language sub-section instead of English for example.
Although the offer was for a French section I don't see why that's the only language that should be discussed about. There are probably alot of Italian, Spanish, Greek, German,Turkish, Japanese and [insert nationaily] non-english speakers who like freediving.
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Originally Posted by subaquaticus
German, Dutch (which is in fact a Low German dialect ; in American slang, Dutch means German), Swedish and English are very similar languages belonging to the family of Teutonic languages ; there is no linguistic barrier between all these countries...
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Historic justification aside I think it only looks that way to you. I speak Hebrew (that has no relation to other european languages) and English and it's much easier for me to understand fractions of French, Spanish and Italian on the account of similar words compared with German/Dutch/Swedish.
Maybe there is a place for a translation section where non-english speakers could post and hope someone will pick it up, I am undecided.
I'm afraid that my favorite place on the net might turn into babylon's tower.
