Maybe responses on each side of the fence should be in the native language.
i.e. German on the German side and any one of 4 million other languages on the International side
People used to post in Spanish on the old forum - I just used to ignore an pass by, since I don't speak or read Spanish.
There is little point in making a response to a post in a language that the poster cannot understand, IMHO (although, I did it too earlier this week..)
I am sure it will all settle down when the excitement dies down.