Post B5ED5Ep9Kx0uRhd3zM by fugueish@wandering.shop
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 (DIR) Post #B5EC4j07YQjpnIx5xw by jann@infosec.exchange
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       aah, the reason why the in-app kindle purchase flow in german has a button labeled "Bitte lesen" (which translates to "Please read") for opening the purchased ebook is that someone mistranslated "Read now" as if it was meant in imperative form?My favorite out-of-context translation fail was some internal status page in Chrome years ago, which described sandboxing status as (translated back to English) "you have trained sufficiently".
       
 (DIR) Post #B5EC4jFicRDOZgFYHI by jann@infosec.exchange
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       I wonder how many tech workers who speak English as a second language actually dogfood their company's stuff in their native language. I have most stuff on my devices configured to have english UI (except stuff like public transport apps which are probably primarily developed with german UI)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ECA7OoGmwaub4Woq by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @jann same. We all use English because the localisation is horrible.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ECziuIZlvE0dPLX6 by freddy@security.plumbing
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       @jann I got into a (mild) argument  multiple times with our localizers and gave up. I disagree with them but I also don’t have to live with the feedback they get elsewhere. Firefox in English it is… :)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ED58mnmlZRigU6Uq by fugueish@wandering.shop
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       @freddy @jann A bunch of years ago, I went on a giant quest to improve translation in Chrome (including getting colleagues to set Chrome to their native languages, which resulted in some 'great' bug reports). Lots of native speakers disagreeing with each other about what words mean. :(One thing I discovered: Apparently, nobody on the team had ever set their locale to an RTL language. Text flying in every direction all over the place. I fixed as many of them as I could.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ED5DDBKd35RerEAa by fugueish@wandering.shop
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       @freddy @jann It is deeply, deeply offensive to me that people have to set their computers to English.ME: Holy fuck, what if the person doesn't speak English??PERSIAN TEAMMATE: Yeah, for those people, the internet is not very accessibleME: FUCKTEAMMATE: Yeah, well, welcome to our lives
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ED5Ep9Kx0uRhd3zM by fugueish@wandering.shop
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       @freddy @jann TURKISH TEAMMATE: Oh, yeah, we call this "Microsoft Turkish." The menu items are syntactically incorrect. This happens all the timeME: FUCKTEAMMATE: Yeah, well, welcome to our lives