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 Author: BLUSER_220801 View Messages Posted By BLUSER_220801
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 08:44
 Subject: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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BLUSER_220801 (642)

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Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?
 Author: bricks2you View Messages Posted By bricks2you
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 08:46
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bricks2you (13668)

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BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?
 Author: therobo View Messages Posted By therobo
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 08:48
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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therobo (9999)

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In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

No.

  
In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?
 Author: Brettj666 View Messages Posted By Brettj666
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:19
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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Brettj666 (1191)

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In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

He's Korean actually.


  
In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?
 Author: Speciale View Messages Posted By Speciale
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:28
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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Speciale (4924)

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In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:
  In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

He's Korean actually.

actually it is a Belgium company who owns bricklink .
  

  
In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?
 Author: bb230946 View Messages Posted By bb230946
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:34
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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In Suggestions, brasletty writes:
  In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:
  In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

He's Korean actually.

actually it is a Belgium company who owns bricklink .

Which is owned by NXC based in Korea and Hong Kong...if someone owns something
that owns something in another country...who is the real owner?
 Author: Fataldalton View Messages Posted By Fataldalton
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:35
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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Fataldalton (379)

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In Suggestions, pumbaugh writes:
  In Suggestions, brasletty writes:
  In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:
  In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

He's Korean actually.

actually it is a Belgium company who owns bricklink .

Which is owned by NXC based in Korea and Hong Kong...if someone owns something
that owns something in another country...who is the real owner?

The boss is a Korean, and the acquisition was actually done through a Hong Kong
company whose parent is a Korean company headquartered and listed in Japan -
Nexon
 Author: Brettj666 View Messages Posted By Brettj666
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:40
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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Brettj666 (1191)

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In Suggestions, brasletty writes:
  In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:
  In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

He's Korean actually.

actually it is a Belgium company who owns bricklink .

Which may be owned by another company, which could be owned by a holding company
whose primary stockholder is a Korean businessman

I was more concerned with correcting Korean from Chinese

  
  

  
In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?
 Author: Fataldalton View Messages Posted By Fataldalton
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:31
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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Fataldalton (379)

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In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:
  In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

He's Korean actually.


  
In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?

Message from Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim, founder of the online game company Nexon, incoming
owner of BrickLink.com:
 Author: Fataldalton View Messages Posted By Fataldalton
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:33
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Fataldalton (379)

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In Suggestions, Fataldalton writes:
  In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:
  In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
  BrickLink is owned by A Chinese businessman.

He's Korean actually.


  
In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?

Message from Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim, founder of the online game company Nexon, incoming
owner of BrickLink.com:As of June 5th, the Hong Kong-based company Bricklink Limited
 Author: TakeAbricK View Messages Posted By TakeAbricK
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:49
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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TakeAbricK (13848)

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In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?

The suggestion is to make a translation in especially French and Spanish? Why
especially those two?

Diana
 Author: bricksahead View Messages Posted By bricksahead
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 09:51
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bricksahead (3904)

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Spanish might be justified according to the following data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers


In Suggestions, TakeAbricK writes:
  In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?

The suggestion is to make a translation in especially French and Spanish? Why
especially those two?

Diana
 Author: BLUSER_220801 View Messages Posted By BLUSER_220801
 Posted: Nov 4, 2014 10:59
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BLUSER_220801 (642)

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I suggested French and Spanish because of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA)
that says that products sold in North America need tri-lingual instructions.
It also allowed a LOT of stuff to be made in Mexico instead of USA

In Suggestions, TakeAbricK writes:
  In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?

The suggestion is to make a translation in especially French and Spanish? Why
especially those two?

Diana
 Author: TakeAbricK View Messages Posted By TakeAbricK
 Posted: Nov 5, 2014 03:58
 Subject: Re: My homepage offers English and 2 Chinese?
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TakeAbricK (13848)

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In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  I suggested French and Spanish because of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA)
that says that products sold in North America need tri-lingual instructions.
It also allowed a LOT of stuff to be made in Mexico instead of USA

In Suggestions, TakeAbricK writes:
  In Suggestions, BreezyBricks writes:
  Hi,
I am in midwest USA. I just noticed that my Bricklink homepage offers links to
change the language my page is printed in. Why is it English and 2 Chinese?
what about the rest of the languages? Especially French and Spanish? Anybody
explain this Bricklink preference?

The suggestion is to make a translation in especially French and Spanish? Why
especially those two?

Diana

Thank you for the explanation.
Personal I don't think other languages are needed. But if they would, Dutch
and German would also be nice

Diana