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06-19-2008, 04:20 PM
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You know whats perplexing and ironic about this DR1 forum, about the Dominican Republic's issues only, that the language use is 99% English. This thread began as a result of the fact that a thread posting the question requiring some feedback about people's opinion if they thought Barrack Obama's life was in danger or at risk and if so to please explain. The thread was deleted three times without an explanation until one was requested to the administrator of the DR1 forum. I guess limitation are call for, however the Dominican Republic native, official language is still SPANISH! Whose talking about inconsistency?
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Give it a break already!!!!
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06-19-2008, 04:24 PM
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I quest as a Dominican national wanting to know "if the life of a potential USA president is in danger or at risk" is not totally unrelated to the D.R. for the simple reason of the extreme input of influence by the old "US" "of" "A" in DR's economics and political matters. Can you guys see the obvious relationship?  |
No, I don't. Enlighten us. What is the "obvious" link between a possible assassination of a US Presidential candidate and DR economics and politics? Are you suggesting that it will be a Dominican or Dominican-hired assassin? If so, on what basis would you suggest that? If not, the linkage is far from obvious.
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06-19-2008, 04:35 PM
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English speaking foreigners only, right?
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Originally Posted by Chirimoya
Why "perplexing" or "ironic"? DR1 is a news and travel info site about the DR with foreigners as its target audience.
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Perplexing because almost everything (99%) on the site is written in English and ironic because no USA's issues threads can be posted.
D.R. official language its Spanish, todavía, not confusing DR with foreigners as the target audience, not just English speaking foreigners! 
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06-19-2008, 04:45 PM
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pneumonia!
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Originally Posted by Keith R
No, I don't. Enlighten us. What is the "obvious" link between a possible assassination of a US Presidential candidate and DR economics and politics? Are you suggesting that it will be a Dominican or Dominican-hired assassin? If so, on what basis would you suggest that? If not, the linkage is far from obvious.
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When the USA catches a cold, the Dominican Republic gets pneumonia!
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06-19-2008, 04:47 PM
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Perplexing because almost everything (99%) on the site is written in English and ironic because no USA's issues threads can be posted.
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English is also the official language of the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Guyana, Belize, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, and a host of other countries, yet no threads on Australian or British or Kiwi or Canadian or Guyanese or Jamaican or Trinidadian politics are allowed. Why?
BECAUSE IT IS A SITE DEVOTED TO DISCUSSING THE DR, not other countries. Why is that so perplexing? 
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06-19-2008, 04:54 PM
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rtejeda, are you suggesting that you are planning to assinate a potential POTUS?
The Secret Service takes those threats very seriously.
Judge your actions accordingly.
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06-19-2008, 04:54 PM
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When the USA catches a cold, the Dominican Republic gets pneumonia!
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The same might be said of the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, if not much of the world. But that is a thin and flimsy excuse for discussing the safety of a US Presidential candidate here.
I might understand it if you wanted to discuss how the candidates' views on free trade agreements might affect the DR if they won, or how changing tariffs on imported ethanol might affect DR biofuel potential, or how US deportations of Dominican criminals might affect crime in the DR, or how the Farm Bill's provisions might affect Dominican agricultural exports...
But the safety of a US Presidential candidate? No direct or "obvious" linkage, not really even an obscure and weak linkage. You're grasping at straws.
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06-19-2008, 05:10 PM
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There are sites about the DR in Spanish, German, Italian and French and other languages no doubt.
The owners of this particular site decided to focus on the English-speaking public, which includes people from two of the countries that send most tourists to the DR - the US and Canada - as well as from other English-speaking countries and people from non-English speaking countries who feel comfortable communicating in English.
Simple as that.
If you want to discuss US politics or international issues there are countless sites dedicated to that purpose.
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06-19-2008, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Keith R
No, I don't. Enlighten us. What is the "obvious" link between a possible assassination of a US Presidential candidate and DR economics and politics? Are you suggesting that it will be a Dominican or Dominican-hired assassin? If so, on what basis would you suggest that? If not, the linkage is far from obvious.
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Keith! Don't feed the troll!
It's probably just Nals anyway.
RHM
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