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It's sad that the default spanish translation is so obviously localized (for Argentinians in particular). It's annoying for the rest of spanish speakers to read
by omegote 8y ago
It's sad that the default spanish translation is so obviously localized (for Argentinians in particular). It's annoying for the rest of spanish speakers to read the texts, specially the imperatives ("Compartí" instead of "Comparte", etc).
- coldtea 8y agoWhat are developers doing reading a dev resource in a localized version in the first place?
- omegote 8y agoThe page spawns in the system locale, and it's pretty hard to change it using the icon in the toolbar below due to the overlay.
- coldtea 8y agoThat's a valid reason I guess. Normally I'll read and write any programming related documentation in english, since it's easier to share, refer to common terms and concept, lookup online, etc, and every dev is expected to be able to read it anyway (else they'll have much worse troubles with error messages, tooling, PL syntax, etc).
- tom_ 8y agoA contrasting view: http://idlewords.com/2006/05/on_bilingual_ballots.htm http://idlewords.com/2006/05/on_bilingual_ballots.htm
- coldtea 8y agoI don't have an opinion on bilingual ballots or not. Not even for bilingual texts for medicine or not. I guess French or Russian or whatever texts on medicine are fine. My comment was strictly for developer documentation -- where everything in programming is in english, and even basic syntax and terminology needs tons of english to grok anyway. So English + development is more like a case of being an Egyptologist and not speaking ancient Egyptian -- they go with the profession.
- lentil_soup 8y ago"every dev is expected to be able to read it anyway" There's a lot of developers that don't speak English fluently. Of course they have a hard time, but that statement is false.
- coldtea 8y agoThat's covered by the use of "expected" I think (as expected != is). That said, trying to read it in English even if they struggle will benefit them more (even as developers, but also professionally) than using some regional translation as a clutch. I wouldn't recommend the same for literature or news of course, but in programming english is like part of the basic science.
- omegote 8y agoMe too, I hate reading technical docs in spanish. I wouldn't have translated the web whatsoever.
- jhncls 8y agoTry https://learngitbranching.js.org/?locale=en https://learngitbranching.js.org/?locale=en to get the English version.
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