English..? Please?

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I play here from some time, I know my English is not good, I learned it long time ago and now I am too lazy to do it again. I am trying to RP with you, but sometimes it is very difficult, because of lack of my language knowledge, so the quality of my RP is not good. I would like to say that this topic - speak fluently English or go away- is not so nice, but I understand your frustration, when you can't communicate with others, because of they don't want / can't answer.

I would say, most of players who come here, they understand English on the basic level. Since we defeated communism -it was 20 years ago- children in my country learn English in the basic school, so no any young guy can say 'I don't speak English'. But some of them simply don't want RP and this lack of language is only a way to avoid RP. I am sure about that, because I met my countryman who tried to act this way. In the end after we cleared conventions in PM, he showed he can talk. Of course older guy like me, who learned in school only Russian, may have problem with English.

There is also other side of this problem. Some people talks in the way that is completely understandable. So I could now say that they break the rule - "All messages in chat must be in understandable English....".
I know that people try to increase the quality of their RP using accent simulation, slang etc., and it is fun for you who are native English speakers, but completely odd for me. I can not communicate with person who talks this way, there is not a dictionary or translator that can help.

The Freelancer community is shrinking all the time, there are many servers but all are almost empty. Why people from all the World come here? They want to play with others. It doesn't make sense to host specific language servers and to play with 5 people. So, even if some people don't present good RP because of their lack of language knowledge, they fill your server and they make freelancer longer life.

Try to be more patient and indulgent. Many times I see that if you will meet not well English speaking guy, you decrease the quality of your own RP to '10 seconds, pay or die' even if this guy wants to say something more, you don't want it, because it is boring for you.

From the RP point, who said the whole Sirius population speaks the same language. There is 800 years after they left Earth, even if they spoke same English, they are spread on many systems, and the local languages were developing all the time. There can be some problems with communication between different groups of people. I am curious if after next 800 years American will talk easy with British.

I hope you understand what I mean, if not, then try to imagine what I wanted to say, I do it all the time here on the forum and on the server. There is no other way, you have to tolerate me, since I won't go away and it doesn't matter how many 'English, please.." topics you will write.

Thanks.