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Originally Posted by italianReader
The question is a little bit misleading.
Maybe (since I'm italian as you can easily guess  ) I would participate to an italian forum but as a general rule I would be against it.
My english is far (very far, indeed) from perfect but i prefer to know that the useful information is kept as "accessible" as possible. I am strongly convinced that is far more important being able to read than to write and a religious monolingual approach is the way to go.
For instance I was a little bit disappointed with the german forum when I was about to buy a pocketbook since I can't read german at all and that forum was an information mine. Yeah sure, you can always use an online translator, but that's just one more hassle. |
but this would be a problem if there were to be
subforums (or fora
) - as far as I understand it, here we are talking about a general forum, possibly for the discussion of books - and I really miss not being up to speed with what happens in contemporary italian literature, so it would be nice to have a place to discuss of Italian books. Sure, you could do that in the general discussion forum, but my guess is that even with the best will in the world any thread with such a limited audience would quickly finish in teh back pages, and many people wouldn't even know it existed. For instance, there was a thread started by Beppe I think on books in Italian and access to Italian libraries for those of us who live outside Italy, but it is hard to find it now back on page 4...
EDIT: The German Pocketbook forum is however an exception, as "Pocketbook Europe" is based in Germany, with one of the moderators being a representative of Pocketbook, while no Pocketbook representative is any longer writing in the English language Pocektbook forum, so this is why most of the relevant information is there. But this is really an exception, as far as I know. Even if there were to be an Italian Pocketbook sub-forum, say, it would end up with very little traffic as the French one, as my bet is that the majority of posters would be in reply to questions by users who know little English and do not feel confident asking qeustions in the general forums.