Rules translation

[Xoria]

Admins who do not speak another language will have a hard time knowing what the rules in that other language actually say.

The only way this would work is to have a committee of several players translating the rules and reviewing them to make sure they mean the same thing as the English version. That level of work is impractical.

If the rules are published in different languages, we'd inevitably hear : "The rules may say that in English, but they don't say it in ________."

Also, it is not always possible to say in language X what you can easily say in language Y, so some of the rules would inevitably have to be changed somehow to accomodate the idiomatic differences. That would essentially create different versions of the rules.

All of this would lead to greater confusion, not less. It would also allow players to argue for loopholes that exist only in their language's version of the rules, and the Admins who don't speak that language would be unable to dispute it.

A common language is the only way to insure that everyone is following the same set of rules.

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