Suggestions in other languages should automatically be translated into the language you speak. An incredible suggestion that is in Chinese or German might never get considered because we English speakers are often too lazy to copy and paste the text into Google Translate.
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Currently this can be solved by a number of browser tools, however, getting into the 'auto translation' of posts can often miss nuances of wording and how that can affect what folks are trying to say. Also punctuation.
Even when we translate posts into English, we run into this problem. We simply aren't staffed to have a native speaker for every language! Global communities are great though and we hope folks can get past that "lazy" to help read ideas posted by everyone.
I found this old joke to explain a lot of it best:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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