Why do people think everyone knows their language?

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I’m just curious because lately every week I get one or 2 PM’s in a language I don’t know.
This week I got Spanish and Portuguese messages but I have received messages in French, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, German, Italian, Russian, Thai, Greek, Japanese and many more.

It always makes me think like “and you expect me to Google Translate while you don’t even bother?”. But some really seem to assume you know their language while you clearly don’t and are not willing to understand you don’t.

I even had an incident where I got a message in Portuguese so I replied in my native language (I usually do so as a hint if I decide to not just ignore) they should write me in a language I know. Then I got a reply in Portuguese again that she didn’t understand what I said. Because I was in a good mood I replied in English (she wanted to help out in Portuguese so I told her to PM the Portugese moderator). And still that person writes me in Portuguese that she’s waiting for my reply. I was so done I decided to ignore it but then I received a message again with the same question, and again, and again, then it was quiet and this week there was a PM again…seriously!

What is your experience with messages in a language you don’t know? Do you reply or will you simply ignore?

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Normally I look at the profile if they mention a language that I can at least somewhat …
If I find nothing, I reply in English with - Sorry, I don’t understand and the languages added I understand so far.
If that doesn’t work I look through my contacts if there is anyone who can actually “communicate” with the writer.
In the end it works out well this way. So far …

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You do all that work? Wow

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Not that much any more, I did work on on air projects in prior years, but I do smaller projects now, so the volume of the mails you are getting might be what I got a few years ago.

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I guess it’s part of the channel manager’s job (dealing with weirdos). This happened to me once and I answered just “In english, please”. But if I had someone spamming me for weeks, I would do as @lutra said, I would find someone who speaks his/her language.

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