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Thanks, I hate it! It's like how every function in Excel is translated as well. `=SUMMEWENNS(…` Complete nonsense, it makes my eyes bleed.

• alexis_fr 7y ago
  Keyword translation poses MAJOR problems when you open the Excel file on another computer, indeed. Unfortunately, Excel files were more often opened on other computers than Java files... To be inclusive is hard. Even if we imagine one Excel version per continent, all Latin-based people would be ok, it would also suit countries that can be globalized under the Chinese or Arabic areas. But the offshore situations with 2 different continents wouldn’t work well. And sooner or later you end up with one Excel version per alphabet. Russian, Tamil, Farsi, etc.
• dunkelheit 7y ago
  For some reason I've always found programming language keywords translated to my native language extremely cringeworthy. I wonder if native English speakers get the same experience for mainstream programming languages or it is just a consequence of novelty.
  • munmaek 7y ago
    The words aren’t cringeworthy but having to decide them leads to arguments over what precisely to name something.