I've been very frustrated with a large and obnoxious group of people who refuse to be polite regarding language choice. 90% of the spam I get on Orkut is in Portuguese, usually having nothing to do with the designated English community they are spamming. Many people refuse to follow the designated language of communities and get angry when asked to translate. Replies like this are more than common; this was directed to me July 12th:
"please babe, don't bother... As you can see you're the only gringa here... So keep quiet. We're still speaking in portuguese here! Not happy?! go learn it, as I learnt English"
It's not a matter of being able to ignore non-English speakers, it's about people being rude to one another.
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I've been very frustrated with a large and obnoxious group of people who refuse to be polite regarding language choice. 90% of the spam I get on Orkut is in Portuguese, usually having nothing to do with the designated English community they are spamming. Many people refuse to follow the designated language of communities and get angry when asked to translate. Replies like this are more than common; this was directed to me July 12th: "please babe, don't bother... As you can see you're the only gringa here... So keep quiet. We're still speaking in portuguese here! Not happy?! go learn it, as I learnt English" It's not a matter of being able to ignore non-English speakers, it's about people being rude to one another.