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Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:31:28 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
> Actually, the reference to "English language" was to recognize the non-English
> speaking LEGO-related communities around the world - De Bouwsteen, 1000Steine,
> FreeLUG, BrickInside, and many many more. It's natural that language is a
> barrier between communities... I know very little about those communities,
> although I'd like to know more.
Hey,
I just wanted to modify the original "LUGNET is pretty much the de facto center
of the English-speaking AFOL community." to suggest that we're the center of the
non-theme-specific English-speaking AFOL community. Perhaps I'm just being a
partisan since I'm very active on classic-castle, but various sites like cc.com,
FBTB (before the crash and hopefully once again soon), the Bricklink forum, the
Brickfilms forum, the new Classic Space forum, BionicleZone (okay, you did say
AFOL, but even so), etc are all their own hubs, and in some cases outweigh the
related Lugnet forum.
Also, it's my impression that Lugnet is the primary board for Italian and maybe
Portuguese language communities.
I do want to echo Jamie's point about the character sets. The Asian AFOL
community (mostly Japanese, but also others) is the one section of the community
that is pretty much opaque to me. A lot of the really key European players
either occasionally or commonly post here or other English-language forums, even
if someplace like 1000steine.de is their usual home. Also, even with my one
semester of German I can stumble through the 1000steine.de forums on occasion
(or less often I'll skim other languages as well), because the characters are
the same and enough words are recognizable. Japanese is a totally different
case. There are all of these amazing builders (think S. Fujita, Takeshi Itou,
Tosiaki Noyori, just to hit three major themes) that mean very little to me
beyond a great Brickshelf gallery (okay, I lied, those three all have known
websites, and I've exchanged one fractured e-mail with Takeshi Itou). But there
are many others. I don't even know if there is a Japanese version of Lugnet or
not. I do know that they have the LMO fest, but that's about it. If Lugnet had
the ability to host Asian character sets, maybe it would foster more ties
between our communities. And maybe I'd get a source for some of those great
promo sets that seem to appear in Japan (there are rumors of some Kabaya Viking
sets . . . ).
Bruce
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| (...) Maybe the phrase "a place where most English-speaking communities connect" would be a more accurate term for LUGNET, since "center" does imply the other communities would orbit around LUGNET, which I don't think is accurate. So thanks for (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Fear not, Political Correctness(TM) is not encroaching on LUGNET. I'm not sure how to equate "be respectful of each other" with my definition of political correctness, which is closer to "you must value what I value." I certainly don't expect (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
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