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That's exactly what I thought the second I read this: We would be needing further informations It sounds uncannily as if Google has offshored service on Googl
by wyclif 9y ago
That's exactly what I thought the second I read this:
We would be needing further informations
It sounds uncannily as if Google has offshored service on Google Drive.
- dragonwriter 9y agoOr just hired people (perhaps on H-1B, perhaps not) for whom American English isn't their mother tongue, and who were hired for their technical rather than language skills.
- askonomnom 9y agoConsidering how badly Americans score on their English tests, I'd say quite a few Europeans speak American English better than Americans themselves.
- gcb0 9y agois this ironic? what's next? wondering if they have left you tube ui to chance?
- zamber 9y agoI'm pretty sure they did. Along with some other services. In Wrocław (Poland) we have a Google office. From water cooler talk I heard that it's mostly support. From another source I heard about support calls where one side eventually figured out the accent and suggested moving from English to Polish ;). Plural for information is valid in Polish and probably other Slavic languages (s. "informacja", p. "informacje"). A lot of Poles do a 1-1 translation when learning and it just sticks in their vocabulary (should work most of the time as Polish has a sizable subset of words with Germanic roots.