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In reply to the discussion: Should DU be an English Only site? [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)and who can understand several other languages, I think you might be overreacting to Yui's post in Japanese. Sure, not everyone can understand it, but it was not hurtful to any DUer, Democrat, or anyone else who has any sense of decency in them. She was venting about the brutality and barbarianism of administering a severe punishment (1000 lashes + 10 years incarceration) for little more than discussing religion. Perhaps she felt uncomfortable saying what she wanted to say in English, but she wanted to vent nonetheless.
I myself occasionally post some things here in Japanese. Most of the time, if I don't include an English translation, they are just semi-private mesages to whomever I'm replying to, and anyone else who can read them. They are not earth-shattering pronouncements. If I come across a message that is in a language I don't understand, I often just skip over it. It's not that hard to do. If it is something that arouses my curiosity, I enter it in Google Translate.