Indeed I have experienced this problem when correcting the direction of RTL languages. I fixed the question by changing my preferred languages.
I think an answer contact should be permitted to set it to any language. I am confident I can identify many languages that I cannot claim to speak. An answer contact may be guessing at the language, but I expect him or her to act responsibly. I don't think keeping the question as the language we know it is not does not help get it answered.
I think this is a legitimate problem that we can fix.
Indeed I have experienced this problem when correcting the direction of RTL languages. I fixed the question by changing my preferred languages.
I think an answer contact should be permitted to set it to any language. I am confident I can identify many languages that I cannot claim to speak. An answer contact may be guessing at the language, but I expect him or her to act responsibly. I don't think keeping the question as the language we know it is not does not help get it answered.
I think this is a legitimate problem that we can fix.