@tha_rami FYI, you're showing how you've not had much experience working in large studios. Take a step back, think about this, return once you're calm again, or don't. Right now you're using fragile arguments to defend earlier tweets.
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Replying to @derElbi
I've worked with plenty of studios from tiny to huge on exactly the topics of inclusivity and language over the past years. I also helped organize the only octolingual industry conference to tackle exactly this issue for everyone who doesn't speak English. I think I'm fine?
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Replying to @tha_rami
"with". I know you contact and organise. But have you been in a large office with 100+ people for, say, a year full-time? Moved to the country for the job? Been in a new environment where... you can't communicate with anyone?
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To be clear: I was the one pushing German co-workers in Germany to not speak German in the office when half the team didn't speak the language. I was also the one spending extra time clarifying -to me, them, the team- what the UX designer with broken English meant when they spoke
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It comes at an extra cost, and "isn't fluent in English" is a horrible reason to reject people, but going "but what if someone doesn't speak English", in an environment where documentation, configuration, code, art specs, tools,... are all written in English is certainly A Take.
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Replying to @derElbi
I could read code before I could read English. I am am English public speaker who is often described as eloquent and funny. I still can't name you ten different bird in English without really trying. Pigeon? Sparrow?
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If you know how big a barrier language is, surely you shouldn't dismiss it the other way around? English is a difficult language, and most people speak what they need to do their work, not what you'd need to fully express life.
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Replying to @tha_rami
Again you make this about private life. Again I remind you this is about work meetings where your talk about work using work vocabulary.
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I've been on both sides of this. A company hiring their first foreign worker, and working in a country where I didn't speak their language. If there is an agreed shared language, not using it is a choice about how important the outsider is.
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