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Why can't you spell 'skeptical'?
Ah yes, you've spotted it! The Local's readers and its journalists come from all over the world, but in the interests of consistency (and as a consequence of having been founded by Brits), articles are written using British spelling conventions. Despite this, we try our best to avoid confusion, and avoid British words like "lorry", when "truck" will do just as well. Still, sometimes we have to make a choice, and in those cases, "tap" will always beat "faucet".
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Within each forum are a number of topics. These can be started by The Local staff or by readers. Topics may be news articles for discussion, questions or burning issues that readers want to debate.
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The Local is all about Germany and for people interested in discussing the hot issues in Germany today. And there are certain house rules.
Paramount among those is this: just as we're not in the business of offending our readers, whatever their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or religion, so we will prevent others from doing so.
You call it censorship, we call it editorial control. Our job is to provide an interesting, entertaining, informative and relevant site for our readers - if your post conflicts with that, then it just might be deleted. If you persist in posting material that we deem offensive, you might even be banned from the site. For more detail, please see our conditions of use.
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Occasionally a thread gets out of hand. That could mean that it has been taken over by bickering or is filling up with posts which breach our conditions. When we aren't able to deal with it on a post-by-post basis, we will lock the thread.
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The Local is owned by The Local Europe AB, a Swedish company which has run a similar website in Sweden, www.thelocal.se, since 2004.
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