city wrote:I also agree with the opinion of erolz and think that Aris points are very important. I'm german, don't speak any Turkish and only a bit of Greek. Definitely not enough to be able to follow any conversation in a forum.
Using other languages than english would exclude me from the forum.
And also for many other international users that are searching for help and advise the forum would maybe not as useful anymore as it is now.
And foreigners, living in CY could not answer questions anymore (even though they might know the answers) when they do not understand the question. So a lot of useful input would get lost.
I'll put in my penny's worth as well. There are so many Cyprus fora in Greek and Turkish and these tend to be hijacked by the extremist crowd who would view writing in English as beneath them. The good thing about this forum is that English provides people from both sides with a lingua franca and from outside Cyprus with an opportunity for dialogue. If you limit it to the two official languages, you'd have less of a dialogue than a mutual hate-fest in which the only words understood would be profanities.
Demdem, I don't know if you've noticed but this is a CYPRUS FORUM, not an English forum. All things discussed on here are about Cyprus, I don't see much discussion of British pub-licencing laws or the latest Premier League scores, do you? Also, in my experience, increasing numbers of Cypriots ARE able to speak, read and write in English, so your claim that English is not understood by the majority does not hold water.
