non-English (or American) speaking servers?

There's been the odd discussion on the EU forums about what server to pick if you weren't an English speaker. Obviously we have French and German speaking servers, but what about the other thousand languages in the world?

Now that we're all on the same forum I'm interested in hearing the thoughts of the wider CoH/CoV community. Obviously, everyone would probably prefer a server filled with other players who speak the same language, but are there any other vocal minorities who would benefit from their own dedicated server?

I'm sure there are a few Canadian players who'd quite like a move over to the French speaking server (forgive my memory of what the other EU servers are called please) if they could get a decent connection to them.

The other one I was thinking might be quite a popular idea is a Spanish speaking server. I know the US has a fairly large Latin population, and there's bound to be a percentage of them playing City Of...I might be making a redundant suggestion here, maybe there's already an unofficial Spanish server? But if there isn't and then one became available, would it be warmly received?

Please discuss and feel free to add your own suggestions.

I would want the Diné(Navajo) and Apache language server. Though there is only about 400k left alive.... but what the heck, ya can dream.

Yah tah hay!

BC

Spanish?

I think there's about 3-4 Portuguese players around (including me). We don't need a separate server, a team will do us just fine.

A Spanish server would be by far and away the most useful - it'd work for both Euro and American players, as well as South Americans.I've also heard that Italians and Portuguese can understand Spanish quite well, especially when it's written down.

The only other language I know well enough to communicate in other than a couple of random phrases is sign language...

I'm not much help here am I.

Well, for the european part, it is still Germany and France (or southern belgium) having often the biggest population of people and both languages are often learned at school. Spanish often is optional, portugees even less and i never seen itialian at any school i've been

Quite alot of games released in europa always had a german/french server, or like WoW, certain countries 'claimed' the server as theirs (dutchbane for example). Also Guildwars had german and french channels.

I only know 1 game that has a dutch client, maple story, but probably we get around englishwise so well, we dont really need our own server.

I personaly dont like these language servers, it eventualy creates a barrier and in case of CoH its even worse due the whole client becomes <language>. (imho that should be optional).

I have a couple of suggestions:

1. Why not a Poorly Spoken English (PSE) server? That way, ate yr oldz cn rite 2 each uther n a wai they cn understnd. Wi wont hve 2 reed crap lik thiz.

2. 0r 4 l33+zp34k z3rv3r? C4n w3 h4v3 0n3 0f +h0z plz? 1 c4n h4z s3rv3r?

This thread reminds me of one of the quotes from the book 776 of the Stupidest Things Ever Said. It always makes me laugh:

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me."

It's so easy to say, "Why doesn't everyone just speak English?" I remember staying with a family in Germany one summer, and I was teaching their older son some English slang. Their younger (5 year old) son asked, "Why doesn't everyone didn't just speak German?" The mother said, "Well, we tried that about 50 years ago. It didn't work."

Esperanto, mia bela homoj!

(Would probably help with my learning! )

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