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On our MUD it's not an official policy to speak only English but sometimes we will tell people to speak English, under our rule saying to follow an Immortal's orders. We do so usually only when it's facilitating OOC or otherwise cheating. For example, we've had cases where people got their good-only friends to identify stuff for their evil characters, done so via talking to each other in a foreign language (couldn't identify which one), and giving each other the same equipment as well. Generally, though, our unofficial policy is that we allow it unless it disrupts gameplay, whether due to the above (breaking roleplay), or OOC gangbanging, or something along those lines. In about 90% of all cases it's not disruptive, and we don't mind letting friends talk to each other in their own native language. It's when it starts affecting fairness and other people's gameplay that we step in.
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