I know I could just go ahead and make a thread for it, but I figured it couldn't hurt to gauge interest here first.
As you know, English is the official language on GotWoot? and Spanish, Danish, Moonspeak and 1337 / AOL talk are all discouraged. HOWEVER, I personally was thinking that because this place has a pretty good international mix, it offers some pretty good learning experience opportunities.
I was thinking of making a thread were the exception to the 'English Only' rule would not apply. People could post in English, of course, but they could also use whatever language they wanted and could talk about whatever, so long as it was either language related or in another language (sorry, no posting flames or useless trolls, I know how some of you are with 'special sections'). Regular forum rules as to spoilers and such would apply.
So, just throwing it out there. Tell me what you all think. Currently there's a (largely inactive) thread about 'How do you translate this to Japanese?' and so this would be a catch-all for that kind of thing as well.
The Proposal (subject to much change):
One thread in General Discussion where the English Only Rule would be disabled.
Posters would be able to post in English, but only to explain something about language. No random posting of unrelated stuff in English.
The overall goal / topic would be learning and teaching languages. So too many posts that try to go severely off-topic (spam posting in another language, for example) will get you a warning if it seems that you're trying to derail the thread and/or spam up your post count.
All other forum rules apply.
In sum: Many languages, one thread, goal to learn/teach languages, other forum rules apply, no spamming.
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