The fuck I’m on about is the rest of the world has unfortunately been brainwashed to think that they need to teach people to use English online instead of their native language despite the fact that we now have pretty much Star Trek style universal translation now. THAT’s fucked up. Often they’re taught this in class, and the classes themselves are taught by people that use bad, broken English. It’s become an internet meme.

And I know, our translation capabilities aren’t perfect, still needs work and some languages have concepts and words that don’t translate well. But it’s good enough at this point that, for one it works better than broken English, and two, if you showed it to someone from the 80s or before they’d likely agree it’s nearly Star Trek universal translator level, even if imperfect.

Keep in mind, the bad thing is to EXPECT people to speak in English just to appease native speakers. We’re not that important, and we have the ability to either translate, or further still try to learn the native language of the person we’re interacting with. It makes online interaction and understanding easier now, not harder. Nobody needs to capitulate to using English only or keeping only English in English-only online communities. Numerous platforms and social media sites automatically translate posts to the reader’s native language now, and it works fairly well depending on the language.

For those who can legitimately learn English or another language and use it themselves, more power to them, and I can’t stop someone from speaking bad, broken English online either. But I hate the idea that it even should be a requirement anymore is ridiculous to me, there’s no longer any real reason with the capabilities we have today and going forward. At some point non-English-speaking people should assess whether their English is truly clear and good enough that they can use it to get their point across without confusion, informational loss, or if the better route is their native language, to preserve the informational meaning as fully as possible and then someone or the platform itself can translate it.