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    Multi-lingual forum

    Found the wierdest forum today:
    http://www.skyscrapercity.com/

    I've never seen so many languages spoken on a single forum. On certain forums I will occasionally see a few people speak in one language in a thread, but this forum is divided by geographic regions. I would suspect that language would be a solid barrier in dividing seperate forums, but aparently not on this one.

    Anyone else find this as intreresting as I do?
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    Wow. Life is short. Erin's Avatar
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    That is interesting. Looks like a pidgin in action. I hear a lot of my Chinese friends mix English and Chinese all the time (it's kind of "cool"). [s]I don't know anything about Tagalog, but since the thread I checked had members from Manila, I wonder if the other languages are Tagalog.[/s] Scratch that.

    It looks like it posts stuff from all over the world in different forum categories. It looks like people post in their own languages in those forums. I found an interesting quote that shows that at least one person isn't in on the joke:

    ^ I seriously don't understand what you are trying to say?
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    I've got most of those character sets installed, I like looking at the layout of different sites and just doesn't look right when the characters are wrong.
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    lol. I actually post at that forum and post much more often a similar forum. Some of tensions between the various parts of the forums are hilarious.

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    It must be hard to moderate, you'd need mods who can speak every language.
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    That's just the thing over there. The moderation is terrible if not non-existent. It has slowly been getting a little better over the past few months, but that's not saying much.

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