Comments on: Na klar!- Of course! Lackeys Learn German

By: cezanne

cezanne — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:28:00 +0000

What I intended should be obvious: This blog is read by many people all over the world. This is not a personal communication between you and whomever. In your private communications you are free to use any language that finds mutual consent, but this is a public blog. Why in the world does it make sense to write your first message in German? Just because it is easier for you or why else? Imagine what chaos resulted if everyone here would write in his native language.

Moreover, it is quite naive to expect that it ever will work out that complex issues like law suits are handled in German by Groundspeak lackeys. It is much easier for people in Germany to deal with these issues in English as they typically have learnt English in school for several years and have not only attended a crash course.

By: Sturmreiter

Sturmreiter — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:26:00 +0000

No, it’s not really reasonable, I am sorry. But don’t worry, with a little imagination and even fewer knowledge of English, one gets the idea quite well.

By: Blackblogbox

Blackblogbox — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:37:00 +0000

Hi guys, nice effort to learn german. That is really nice of you guys. But do you really want to know what “Oberweserdampfschifffahrtkapitänsmützenschirm” means? English is alright for me. Here is another suggestion: Use local artist for creating the souvenir pics. (The german ones f.e. are looking a little bit too much like an american would think they should. For a german that design feels – you know – like from 1940+.) It would give a nice participation opportunity

for locals. What do you say?

By: tvchick :)

tvchick :) — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:59:00 +0000

Ich denke wirklich it’ s
ehrfürchtig, wenn ich Pufferspeicher oder trackables mit Text in anderen
Sprachen finde. Er erinnert mich, wie sehr International und folglich
Universalgeocaching ist!

(Ich übersetzte dieses von Englisch unter Verwendung eines
on-line-Aufstellungsortes. Ich hoffe, dass er sinnvoll! ist)

By: Jörg (DWJ_Bund)

Jörg (DWJ_Bund) — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:35:00 +0000

I very appreciate that groundspeak will now start to communicate also in other languages and that they took the time to learn. And I have personally told this Bryan and Thomas last week on our meeting in Kassel.

Well, cezanne, all other communication with Bryan or or other persons from groundspeak is done in english. I really dont know, why you place this note here… What’s your intension?

Kind Regards

Jörg (DWJ_Bund)

By: cezanne

cezanne — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:13:00 +0000

It appears totally inappropriate to me to reply to an English text on a US-website in German. Even if some people at Groundspeak start to learn German (my appreciation goes to them for their effort), it is not a good idea in my opinion to write a rather complex comment in German only. I am sure that you had a more than a crash course of a few hours in English.

Even if Germany has a high cache density, geocaching is still an international activity and English is the natural language of geocaching and should be used whenever possible and when we wish to make mutual understanding as easy as possible.

By: Maacher

Maacher — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:24:00 +0000

Ich komme im Juli zum Abfragen nach Seattle
(I will come to Seattle in July to do a test with you …)

By: Jörg (DWJ_Bund)

Jörg (DWJ_Bund) — Fri, 06 May 2011 08:44:00 +0000

Nach den USA ist der deutschsprachige Markt (Deutschland, Östereich, Schweiz, …) der zweitgrößte Markt für Groundspeak. Da ist es sicher sehr hilfreich, auch in der gleichen Sprache mit den Benutzern und auch möglichen Beschwerdeführern aus Jagd, Waldbesitzer &Co. direkt kommunizieren zu können. Bisher laufen so einige Nachfragen, Beschwerden oder gar Strafanzeigen bei der Infoplattform geocaching.DE auf und das ist bei GC-Caches eben eine Baustelle von Groundspeak

By: Wulf

Wulf — Fri, 06 May 2011 08:09:00 +0000

Let me quote on of your greatest composers of the last century:
(Frank Zappa, A Token Of My Extreme, found on Joe’s Garage)
“L. ron hoover: Yes, but if you want a really good one, you’ll have to learn a foreign language…
Joe: German, for instance?
L. ron hoover: That’s right… A lot of really cute ones come from over there!”

By: Szilard Kiss

Szilard Kiss — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:54:00 +0000

that’s together with Austria and Swiss we bring it to 15% if All Caches World Wide … and thats a big Story.

13% Germany 0.52 Cache /qkm (1qkm = 0.3861qmi)
1,3% Austria 0.21 Cache /qkm
0,9% Swiss 0.3 Cache /qkm

even Austria and Swiss has more Cache like France =)