Mr. Roboto, you don't need to be rude!
You are right, it's not imperative requesting all translations into English. We suggest that step only for those pair of languages which are very rare. That's not the case of this translation, of course.
I apologize for the misunderstanding.
Gamine, I don't know why you "demand" a request into English. When you want to have some text translated into a language that was not required, you may ask for the translation yourself (as you did, I think), but if in the meantime some other user does the job, there is nothing we can do.
You probably asked for the translation and Maria17 started doing it, so when you tried to do it, it was not available anymore. That's probably what happened. I'm sorry, things run fast on cucumis!
CC: gamine