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Someone may report you for using an Asian language 
Its totally madness.
Hawai'i is part of Polynesia, which in turn is part of Oceania, that is, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. 'Olelo Hawai'i is thus not an Asian language. 
I can't understand it, so they must be saying mean things about me!
Smiley-verse is the wave of the future.
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Read in the San Franscisco Chronicle that the highest turnout in Chinatown was for when they got to vote for President Obama. Hardly any Chinatown Chinese voted for Republicans. Its thanks to many Chinese young people who registered as Democrats got their parents and grandparents to vote. DO YOU KNOW what a difference it would make to HAVE MORE CHINESE DEMOCRATS on DU? THE FACT that the mayor of San Francisco, is a Chinese American Democrat is amazing enough.
ED LEE.
How much stronger would it be, to have MORE ASIAN Americans on this website. People who can contribute to the conversation. Yet if people say They are not wanted here... what a shame that would be.
I have no idea what your post is about.
Myelye is from France - and I sometimes respond to that poster with a little French. We have a few posters here in non English speaking countries who bring so much to the board. The teasing about less than perfect grammar is not necessary.
I wonder why it bothers some so much? Hell many of the posts written in English here can't be understood by many DU-ers either.
puis non.
mentally place any op written in a language I can not read on ignore.
Freedom is sometimes just that...freedom.
If you had a post hidden, it was because a DU jury decided it was unacceptable. DU juries are not stacked with feminist Gestapo.
BOOM GOES the Dynamite!!! 
wow, you somehow make it worse.
HUGS CREEKDOG!!
And how would you enforce your rule? National ID Cards for all posters? 
Our slang is very similar to that in the UK, so I did think that exchange between you two was funny. I sometimes see words or names (like Randy!) that set me off snickering because they mean something different here than in the US. I sent a link to an Australian slang dictionary to an American DU friend to educate him on the finer points of slang
Please don't think I don't have some sympathy for you copping yr first ever hide. It was a 4-3 hide if I'm remembering correctly, and most likely another jury would have gone the other way or even done a 7-0 leave. It's so random and inconsistent that it'd do my head in trying to figure out any logic in jury decisions..
Nazi... NO SOP FOR YOU!!!
JUST IN CASE.... its passed my 3 and half hours, and I get to log off and take a shower. Any anger filled threads at me, please hold them for a twenty four hour period and then forward them to the Asian group where my secretary will likely take a message and translate it to Japanese and then back into Romaji ...which some people believe is a form of Klingon or ...something.
Cause that's totally rude to do in public as well.
Conversations between people out in public but not PART of that public is fine. How is it that you can't see the difference between the two? When posting on a message board one is ADDRESSING the users - all of them. When one is out in public and having a conversation with someone they're out with they aren't ADDRESSING those people that happen to be in earshot.
This isn't rocket science.
IF YOU CAN'T speak or won't speak ENGLISH you ARE NOT WELCOME in the DEMOCRATIC pARTY? The tent is not big enough for everyone? wow...
If it were a language I don't speak I'd probably try to translate it just to make sure it didn't say something offensive if I were on such a jury. If I couldn't find out what it said, I guess I'd leave the jury.
Juries are weird. I've messed up as a jurist before and realized it after the fact, which I guess makes me weird, too.
Cause taking offense and alerting for someone posting a short blurb in a different language is a very right wing kind of thing to do. I'm surprised the jury went along with it.
the Asian Privilege thread? unhidden.
the post saying a rape victim couldn't weigh in on a topic because they were a rape victim? unhidden.
the post of an innocuous phrase in Japanese? hidden.
please.
Skinner decided to heap some shame on the poster by saying it was "polite" to post in English, obviously saying that it wasn't polite that she posted an expression in Japanese.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12595961#post1
(the irony of Skinner's response, is that 1) this was clearly not an insult and 2) *I* was the one who received the foreign language insult (in Russian way back when) AND AND, when I posted it to expose the sender (who PM'd me with it) my post was hidden. So this was total bullshit.)
Utterly ridiculous especially in light of just two weeks before justifying to someone in the African American group (his one and only post in that group) that their post was hidden because they called someone racist, and that he didn't actually know whether or not what was posted was racist.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11876548#post88
That's right, he posted that he didn't know whether what was written was racist or not, but justifies hiding a post that calls another post's content (not author) racist. Yes, he was actually more concerned that a post was called racist than whether it was or not.
He should read a few of Martin Luther King's speeches. Maybe he could take him to task for calling things racist, because he sure as hell did, and rightly so.
You all best post in English and don't be calling things racist, even if they are. Be polite now.
magalor = great good luck in Gaelic ...
It is important to speak Kitteh so as to be able to read the cat posts.
memo to Admins. your juries don't even represent your community.
but keep defending those jury results, no matter what.
Where I was probably out at Safeway shopping for food for my table and food for my cat. ONE can not be glued to DU 24-7 like some people, though I do try. I guess THE NEXT TIME I post anything, I need to wait at least 3 and a half hours before I leave the house. I suppose I could ask DUERS permission to go shopping and not to get upset over anything until I get back.. OR here is another brilliant IDEA, I COULD ask DU TO PLEASE PROVIDE ME WITH ONE OF THOSE lovely phones that get the internet, and than I will never be out of reach. But...you know before I get one, I would suggest that you, Muriel ask DU FIRST...I WOULD like to see the reaction before I ask for my free I-phone with DU app.
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"Tierra_y_Libertad?" Is that an insult against liberals?
Admin has said it's perfectly fine for juries to hide foreign language posts. Juries rule even when they drool.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12595961
Therefore, perhaps we should make it official, that only English is acceptable. That would involve setting an actual community standard though.
Which the juries will ignore, and at times, even hide a post that is in keeping with the standard.
And then perhaps the Admin. will defend the jury for doing.
So either learn Algonquian, or go back to where you came from.
I like seeing different languages
Skittles chan wa totemo kawaii ne! (Skittles is totally Cute!) YES INDEED
check out me and my monkey!
For purely selfish reasons. I only know English, and have never been good at understanding other languages.
I'm one of those who found it very difficult to learn other languages in school.
though one of my examples was where Skinner went to a thread in the African American group to chide a poster who called the content of a post racist.
and in a similar timeframe, stayed out of an OP written by a verifiable racist, written about "Asian Privilege".
i'm sure there was no intention of sending a message, but one was received nonetheless.
People constantly look to the Admins/Skinner for leadership - most of the time in the manner that my mom used to say, "just wait until your father gets home!"
And that is not the role they play here. They've made that clear through both words and actions. It's been that way for a while.
Rightly or wrongly I think they are 99% hands off now. The community will mold itself. Someone recently asked in ATA about how many timeouts does someone have to get until they finally tombstone them. Skinner said there is no number. It's up to us to keep putting them on timeout.
I think for a while the fear of dad coming home did mold the community to what people thought Skinner wanted. That went out the window a long time ago. I remember countless juries that would reference Skinner and what he would want and the majority would hide. Now if you pull that you might lose your alert privileges for 24 hours.
but the irony of my complaints is where the exception to "hands-off" was made.
the AA group thing, i mean 
are you basically hands-off except to go into that group and tell them they were wrong? i'm trying to think why the exception was made there?
why go into the AA group and tell them not to call the content of a post "racist" because that means you're calling the poster "racist" and it doesn't matter if the content is or not, but that's how it works around here...
yes, i get the hands-off, while i don't love it, i'd like it a lot more if it was adhered to in one pretty indefensible case.
ENGLISH IS SO YUMMY....ITS like eating ..um... butterscotch over graham crackers in the morning because the honey has run out!! Was that also a non sequitur nonsense reply? I know you wanta pick a fight with me but I must tell you I know Kungfu, Karate, JuJitsu and MANY, MANY, MANY other Asian words.
Suggesting they should have their own forums!!!!!
It is and I have learned it is xenophobic to think DU should be an English board!!!!!!!!!!!
then we must be sure that we get the grammar correct, and conjugate the verbs properly.
