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Hello Ud262,being a native German speaker myself, your posts so far are definitely interesting, constructive and thoughtful, but since this is a United Kingdom hosted forum, and English is the lingua franca of aerospace, I do believe there really is no need for or value in adding German translations to all your already well phrased statements and observations worded in English. If every forum member that is a non native English speaker consistently followed your approach (perhaps even in their own non Roman alphabet), it would clutter up the forum pretty quickly and make it much less user friendly, as well as eat up limited storage capacity by unnecessarily duplicating information. As an engineer, I've always been impressed by how English is notably more efficient (and, in my personal view, also more elegant, but that's obviously beside the point here) than German in consistently conveying the same amount of information content in a significantly lower number of characters (i.e. see the analysis in https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/96c1/31983788b04d88aeaebaf927aec922a4e382.pdf, which states that on average German requires 21% more letters than English to express the same thoughts), so, also taking all the existing online translation options into account, as a typically blunt (and proud of it, too!) German, I'd recommend to just stick with English only for making contributions to this forum. But zen again, I'm not ze Forum Polizei, so zere .Alles Gute (I'm a living contradiction, I know),Martin
Hello Ud262,
being a native German speaker myself, your posts so far are definitely interesting, constructive and thoughtful, but since this is a United Kingdom hosted forum, and English is the lingua franca of aerospace, I do believe there really is no need for or value in adding German translations to all your already well phrased statements and observations worded in English. If every forum member that is a non native English speaker consistently followed your approach (perhaps even in their own non Roman alphabet), it would clutter up the forum pretty quickly and make it much less user friendly, as well as eat up limited storage capacity by unnecessarily duplicating information. As an engineer, I've always been impressed by how English is notably more efficient (and, in my personal view, also more elegant, but that's obviously beside the point here) than German in consistently conveying the same amount of information content in a significantly lower number of characters (i.e. see the analysis in https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/96c1/31983788b04d88aeaebaf927aec922a4e382.pdf, which states that on average German requires 21% more letters than English to express the same thoughts), so, also taking all the existing online translation options into account, as a typically blunt (and proud of it, too!) German, I'd recommend to just stick with English only for making contributions to this forum. But zen again, I'm not ze Forum Polizei, so zere .
Alles Gute (I'm a living contradiction, I know),
Martin
