While people might dislike german for various reasons (-> difficult to learn / / different sound / dislike for everything german in general due to the past or other nationalist issues) the language itself is no way medival.
It is modern, it is very precise it is one of the most modular and adaptive languages.
I admit it has its complicated not always consistent grammar….like most grown languages.

It has had a long tradition and evolution. It was valued when german culture had been an important centre for literature, philosophy and science.
While I understand that the reputation of germans or german culture is tainted due to the recent past and fears connected let us not forget that this is not the only german heritage. This includes the language.

Why english language has to adapt words like “Menschlich, Zeitgeist” and the like? Beause the language has teh best definition for these terms and it is on point.
German language also adapts many words of other languages – it is a very adaptive and creative language for those understanding it.
regarding a language being out of date – well. You can have modern conversations in latin even though – aside from natural and medical science – is deemd a dead language….

It is always a matter of point of views and of the power of understandign a language and actually use it. A lot of my countrymen even don’t understand their own language and don’t use it correctly. And as I have heard from native speakers of a caln I have been member a decade ago that is even the case regarding the so simple english language.

I am not saying people have to be fond of german or germany but it earns the same respect as any other language on the planet.
I know we have these narrow minded people in all countries and of course also in germans who join up in in to the “klingons” bandwagon on WOT servers.
But … maybe people are just people. And maybe people overcome their prejudices and try to at least pay respect – at least for the people no matter of their origin and tounge.

To the topic and your last paragraph.
english is easy to get into but hard to master! It is like a game – like WoT.
You have a quick and easy entry but the earning curve is getting steeper if you really want to get into it. It has the largest vocabulary of all languages if I remember correctly. One word may have a dozen or more different meanings depending on context – something most illiterate non-native speakers never recognize.
However it is indeed very easy to use to inter-communicate in the western world. But western world is just a part of the world and we westerners should not make the mistake to believe we’re the center just because we have undeniable influence.

A lot of people thought of themselves and their culture being superior…..
just think about it – the pattern repeats and there is no society not corrupted by this thought patterns and ideologies. There is fascist thinking in all of us if you are going meticulous about it. We see it every day on servers and it begins with the principle “Those are noob but I am right in my doing”.

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Back to Challenger and Chieftain. Btw I sometimes mix up their nicks.

As in movie world americans probably due to their culture and self-conception have a gift of a certain entertainment and welcoming appearance. Not trying to push the chieftain in the hollwood corner regarding contence – I mean the way of presentation.
I define it as a common quality due to the fact that I have this feeling reading a lot of ofrums with us american participants largely showing this kind of ease in their communication.

I watch both and of course there is a difference, the most obvious being the accent of Mr. Cuttland. However I think his presentation doesn’t suffer from it.
It is just different.
As for the technical issues and expertise. There is probably a difference but I feel a certain bias in the writing of the blog’s owner it artificially widening the gap between those two gentlemen a bit.
Still I have also the feeling that there is something wrong in WG’s practice of how the company and its regional bureaus are (not) synchronized in content and policy. In my eyes these discrepancies leave WG as a whole body to appear unserious and arbitrary. there seems to be no underlying general concept and why I understand that there have to be regional differences to be accomodated I can’t understand how this is allowed to harm the perception of a consistent corporate communication as I claimed earlier.