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It's fine when you're solely reading something. Your eyes gaze to what you understand. Just like a product manual that comes in 20 languages. Where this approa
by gompertz 5y ago
It's fine when you're solely reading something. Your eyes gaze to what you understand. Just like a product manual that comes in 20 languages.
Where this approach falls flat is web domains. It requires you to actually type out both the language you know; along with a language you (likely) don't. Quick Google only 1.2% know both.
And as pointed out above, then figure out if those variations are separated by a dot, underscore or hyphen. Notwithstanding the domains get ridiculously long.
It's good we try to please everyone, but sometimes the politeness goes too far. Registering the domains in both French and English in this case should have been more than sufficient.
- neom 5y agoIt's not being polite in this instance, it's satisfying a law. We are not being "polite" to the French Canadians, the French Canadians consider themselves distinct.The Quebecers would not tolerate it any other way, and we'd go back to separatist conversations in Canada. This isn't being polite, it's politics and deep rooted societal issues (that should at some point be resolved imo, also imo, it's a total utter travesty we offer everything so strictly in French and English to preserve the culture, but screw offering it in Ojibwe for the natives, boils my blood, but that would be being polite.)