Calm down lynx.
Who said anything about 'blaming Americans'? Most of the people who have posted here are American, for crissakes.
The point of my original post was that the guy in question complained about 'chatter' in Japanese, but I've never heard him complain about chatter in English. I personally couldn't see why it is a problem if other languages are written in AH.
It is simply impolite to speak in a group of people using a language no-one else understands.
Oh sure, if we are all sat in a circle taking afternoon tea.
But we're not, we're all engaged in doing something else, i.e. playing the game. I don't consider it impolite in the slightest.
Spanish and other oscenities "bravely" typed behind the safety of one's screen, obviously add so much to "cultural" and "multinational" aspects of AH... Sad.
Eh? What are you talking about, pal?
"lack of decent help file that explains the basic rules"
I'm sorry, have I missed something? I know there are conventions for playing the game, but I didn't think one of them was that 'English must be written at all times'. Who would want such a stupid rule like that anyway?
BTW, the Japanese blokes weren't newbies either.
You want yourself understood - speak English...
I'm sure they knew that, as do the other non-English speaking pilots. But maybe, just maybe, they were just chatting, and such, their comments would have been largely irrelevant to the rest of us on. Why should two guys speak in broken English to each other, when they have a common language through which they could communicate in a fraction of the time?
[This message has been edited by Dowding (edited 11-20-2000).]
