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> I am always using the US-EN Firefox version because frankly why would I use translated software when I can understand and use the original. This is maybe not
by kzrdude 7y ago
> I am always using the US-EN Firefox version because frankly why would I use translated software when I can understand and use the original.
This is maybe not the topic of discussion, but the argument is that your computer is your tool, and the computer should speak your language and adapt itself to you, and not the other way around. For this reason I like and prefer software that speaks my native language! However, I don't have patience for bad translations, and in those cases I'll avoid the translated apps. Not a problem for Firefox!
- Mirioron 7y agoI absolutely loathe software in my native language. I will go out of my way to avoid it, because it makes everything more complicated.
- afiori 7y agoFrom my point of view translated software often just means that googling errors is harder
- coribuci 7y agoIt's worse than that. Some words did not exist in the target language (the computers are relatively new compared to the age of the language) so they had to be created. Nothing is more annoying than to search for words which make no sense.
- kzrdude 7y agoWhy do you think english is any different? Silly words were created for new concepts in computing (as in other fields) in English too. You just don't notice how silly all the new words are (like bit and byte, and "gigaflop" and so on) because english is a prestige language and that it is a foreign language.
- ric2b 7y agoBut using my native language makes troubleshooting and following tutorials much harder. Using English is the path of least resistance