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does anyone know why skype picked German as the only translation of this message?

by zinssmeister 16y ago

mike4u2 16y ago
Because Germans tend to complain the most if free stuff does not work ;-)
- RP_Joe 16y ago
  Very funny.
- preek 16y ago
  What free stuff? I have a paid subscription for international calls and my voicemail, my dear friend. Do you? If not, then stop mocking people you don't know. If you do, preferably also stop mocking people you don't know. Having said that, I have important business calls to do today and I'm certainly not going to throw money at my iPhone carrier. I hope Skype is coming back online for me, soon. But I have not yet started complaining anywhere, because Skype has offered me a great service and lots of savings in the last two years. But who am I to day, I'm just a grumpy German.
corin_ 16y ago
Obvious possibilities include German being the most used non-English language for Skype users, or that they're going to be adding other languages but their translators haven't yet written them. The only guess I have that isn't from an obvious reason is that Skype HQ is in Luxembourg, a small country right next to Germany. One of the three official languages there is German, and the other is Luxembourgish, which is closely related to German.
switch007 16y ago
My awful Spanish translation: A principios de hoy, nos dimos cuenta de que el número de usarios conectado a Skype empezó caer. Esto no es normal ni esperado así que nos pusimos a investigarlo. Skype no es como un red de telefonía convencional ni red de mensajería instantánea - en cambio, para que todo vaya bien depende de millones de conexiones entre los computadores y los teléfonos. Unos de esas computadores se llaman "supernodes" - funcionan como una agenda de direcciones por Skype. Si quieres hablar con alguien y Skype no lo puede localizar inmediatamente, tu computador o tu móvil intentará localizar un "supernode" para descubrir la manera de contactarle. Normalmente hay un montón de supernodes disponibles. Hoy, por desgracia, muchos no eran conectados debido a una problema que afectaba algunos versiones de Skype. ¿Qué estamos haciendo para mejorar la situación? Nuestros ingenieros están haciendo nuevos "mega-supernodes" lo cuanto antes, que con un poco de suerte va a hacer que todo se normalice.
- switch007 16y ago
  Google Translate does a pretty awesome job too, fwiw.

does anyone know why skype picked German as the only translation of this message?

mike4u2 16y ago

Because Germans tend to complain the most if free stuff does not work ;-)

RP_Joe 16y ago
Very funny.
preek 16y ago
What free stuff? I have a paid subscription for international calls and my voicemail, my dear friend. Do you? If not, then stop mocking people you don't know. If you do, preferably also stop mocking people you don't know. Having said that, I have important business calls to do today and I'm certainly not going to throw money at my iPhone carrier. I hope Skype is coming back online for me, soon. But I have not yet started complaining anywhere, because Skype has offered me a great service and lots of savings in the last two years. But who am I to day, I'm just a grumpy German.

corin_ 16y ago

Obvious possibilities include German being the most used non-English language for Skype users, or that they're going to be adding other languages but their translators haven't yet written them. The only guess I have that isn't from an obvious reason is that Skype HQ is in Luxembourg, a small country right next to Germany. One of the three official languages there is German, and the other is Luxembourgish, which is closely related to German.

switch007 16y ago

My awful Spanish translation: A principios de hoy, nos dimos cuenta de que el número de usarios conectado a Skype empezó caer. Esto no es normal ni esperado así que nos pusimos a investigarlo. Skype no es como un red de telefonía convencional ni red de mensajería instantánea - en cambio, para que todo vaya bien depende de millones de conexiones entre los computadores y los teléfonos. Unos de esas computadores se llaman "supernodes" - funcionan como una agenda de direcciones por Skype. Si quieres hablar con alguien y Skype no lo puede localizar inmediatamente, tu computador o tu móvil intentará localizar un "supernode" para descubrir la manera de contactarle. Normalmente hay un montón de supernodes disponibles. Hoy, por desgracia, muchos no eran conectados debido a una problema que afectaba algunos versiones de Skype. ¿Qué estamos haciendo para mejorar la situación? Nuestros ingenieros están haciendo nuevos "mega-supernodes" lo cuanto antes, que con un poco de suerte va a hacer que todo se normalice.

switch007 16y ago
Google Translate does a pretty awesome job too, fwiw.