Seperation of Cyrillic and English entries

[amante_donne]

Title
Seperation of Cyrillic and English entries

Short, concise description of the idea
I would like to be able to set my Livejournal so that Cyrillic entries do not appear, i cannot read it, and i find it gets in the way when looking for content to read.

Full description of the ideaThis has mainly effected me on the Recent public Posts link - Read more... )

Comments

[kayt_arminta]

+1, it's one of the reasons I don't use the "most recent entries" thing. I love it when I can find something in English or French, but most of the posts are Russian and I can't understand a damned thing and wish I didn't have to sift about to find something in English. Maybe a way to specify what language you want, English, French, German, whatever. That'd be neat too

[charliemc]

Maybe a way to specify what language you want...

Exactly. This is FAIR.

[amante_donne]

i guess it was a little ignorant of me to assume that only Cyrilic and English were spoken on LJ, I guess its only becuase they are the only languages i see. I think other languages such as Spanish, French, German etc do not inundate LJ as much as Cyrilic and it wouldnt bother me passing over a few posts of regular languages, but cyrillic dominates in that section and becuase the search facility in LJ is absolutely abysmal I do look at it on occasion to try and find new journals, or rather i would do if it was displayed in a language I could read.

[amante_donne]

this would be ideal in fact especially for languages just do not appear often, I guess someone who speaks french for example looking for a french entry in the section I mentioned must be a nightmare, wading through Cyrilic and English posts.

[charliemc]

First off, I admit I don't use the Recent public Posts link very often, but this sounds like a reasonable request to have such a setting.

It's a shame that English-speaking individuals tend not to speak/read other languages, but it's a fact. (And if I'm being honest I don't want to scroll through Cyrillic text, either.)

I feel like I'm exhibiting a bigotry, but I'd say the same if this were about those who want to ONLY see Cyrillic and not English...

[amante_donne]

I use it rarely at the moment as I cannot read 99% of the entries, but with the search facility in LJ being Abysmal I am hard pressed of finding other journals to read.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Well, to be fair, I know four-and-a-half languages (although I suspect people here don't write in Latin), and I still would not be averse to the posts in languages I do not read at all being removable.

[mlady_rebecca]

How would posts be filtered out?

You can't go by the country of origin or the language associated with the person posting, because many users post in multiple languages. For instance, I have a friend from Argentina who mostly posts in English, but occasionally posts in Spanish.

So, in theory, I'd love to filter out posts in languages I can't read. But I'm not sure there is a way to identify the language of a post without someone explicitly identifying it.

Asking users to identify the language of each and every post seems a bit much. Easier if there is an appropriately set default, though.

[mlady_rebecca]

As long as it's possible to shift the default to something other than what your geographical location is, I think that could work. That would account for people temporarily living in another country (for school, for work, for military service) and people who are using their journal to improve their ability to communicate in a different language.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Or just to be able to talk to people at all - there are Germans on LJ, and I've about... I'm not sure, 5-10 German LJ friends, but it'd be limiting if I only talked to them.

If this were implemented, I'd like to have the ability to define a language for my whole journal and mark any post I make in another language as such.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Yeah, that was something I noticed too.

[mskala]

And someone who could only read Russian wouldn't care whether it was English, Roman, or Romanian.

[azurelunatic]

This would be made easier by the implementation of an old suggestion that was migrated but hasn't at this time been implemented (but it's in the current system), which would offer the ability to set the (primary) language of any given entry: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/535705.html