I am wondering if I can use English in other sections of SIS to start new topic or reply . My laptop just be reimaged and I have trouble to bring up Chinese Input recently.

[ 本帖最后由 techno6t3 于 2008-12-21 13:14 编辑 ]

（1）汉字回复少于十个字，或者拼音和英语单词少于十个词，严禁出现用没有意义的字、 词、单词（如:沙發,頂,好，第一，谢谢，谢谢楼主的发贴，谢谢，同意，第二，ok,good,支持楼主发贴,hao,zhichi....）回贴

According to forum's rules. You can reply or post in English or pinyin and it's gotto be 10 words or more.
But I still see mod deducting points/giving warning for using english/pinyin.

It's better to communicate with the moderator first, just send a pm to him/her before you do anything.

It's better to communicate with the moderator first, just send a pm to him/her before you do anything.

My answer is " yes, you can!" ,for I have used English to reply many times and it's quite OK; the point is the content of your reply!

I reply with english occasionally, seems alright, but not everyone can understand what you type likely.

i can't read chinese and don't understand most of the things in the forum without an online translator.. so, sometimes, i feel really reluctant to make a post here.. but its good to hear about this issue..

well..., i replied all the msgs in english, so far no deduction.

anyway, i m still new.

you can use English in any other forum, but maybe few people know your idea when your sentence is complicated and difficult.

From my point of view, one general way to judge an English post/reply is to translate it into Chinese first and see if there is any offence against the rules and regulations.

[ 本帖最后由 curlxp 于 2009-1-24 15:52 编辑 ]

I would like to express my disappointment when reading so many posters saying no marks will be deducted when they reply in English.

No, it is absolutely wrong. Within two days, my gold coins have been dramatically reduced and my accumulated marks have been reduced from l to 0 when I posted my replies in the other forums in English, such as the Literature Area and the Adult Novel Area. The reasons indicated by those Forum Administrator really made me feel very upset. They said since these forums are intended for Chinese readers, I have to reply in Chinese. Yes, sadly speaking, just for this reason, many of my gold coins were exploited.

One more comment from him was that since I can read Chinese, I have to reply in Chinese. It is not very convincing indeed. By reading the comments of the posters of this Forum and the rules and regulations of SIS, there are no restrictions to guard against using English in replying in all the Forums (I may be wrong at this point if I have overlooked or missed out some important points of the overall Rules and Regulations of SIS)

Finally, I am a computor beginner and I have no knowledge of using computor to input the Chinese characters. This means I can survive only in this Forum - English and Multi Languages Section in which I can express my likes and dislikes. Is this the ultimate purpose of SIS?

Ironically, more or less each Forum in SIS carries an English Heading but denies the viewers to reply in English. Will this cause confusion to all the supporters of SIS.

After all, I must reinstate that SIS is the best of all similar websites all over the world. SIS is the King of Kings. Long live SIS.