Christen57 wrote:Darkraiclone wrote:Christen57 wrote:
Then we'll need judges who speak at least 3 or 4 different languages to communicate with all the spanish, french, japanese, chinese, korean, german, russian, and hindi speakers.
They would have to, yeah, because not everyone who plays Yugioh speaks english. Granted it would be a fairly difficult process, but out right barring non-english speaking players from ranked due to not speaking english doesn't seem fair.
Speaking in a language other than english could be interpretted as Spam Minor. One of those examples given in the rules page is "Posting nonsensical phrases/sentences without meaning (e.g. akj skef adsls) continuously."
This means speaking in a foreign language could be seen as posting a bunch of phrases that make no sense to others who don't speak your language. That's one way you could look at it.
In fact, in this replay in particular, the players could have spoken english, as they did do so quite a bit, but chose not to and to instead continue speaking french which is gibberish to those like myself who don't know french.
I don't speak french either, but that doesn't mean that speaking it should be outlawed, especially if both players can speak it. If anything, barring players that speak different languages would only serve to divide the community if they are forced to speak another language to be allowed to play in ranked, or worse not speak at all, which would only cause more problems.
