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The last time I looked at it, they wanted to artificially limit the number of people using it, by doing all the developer documentation just in Norwegian. I se

The last time I looked at it, they wanted to artificially limit the number of people using it, by doing all the developer documentation just in Norwegian. I see that’s no longer the case and all docs are in English. edit: I guess my memory is wrong, because all the archive.org API docs websites are in English.

ducktective 4y ago
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- shp0ngle 4y ago
  I don’t understand what you mean. Maybe my memory is wrong, it was a long time ago. But I really remember they even wrote explicitly it’s to limit people from using it, or something similar. If I had time now I would look into web archive to check if my memory is not deceiving me
mytailorisrich 4y ago
You should take it as a nice bonus if they publish their docs in English rather than as a given, especially when it's free and from a country where English is not the language.
- Broken_Hippo 4y ago
  I'm still a bit surprised these weren't available in English. It isn't the language of the country, but children start learning it at age 6. A lot of masters and PhD courses are taught in English, and some workplaces use it quite a bit, especially if they do collaborations with other countries. This would fall in that last category. I can find a lot of information from the government in English, and all of my immigration paperwork was in English - they don't require you to further translate into Norwegian. I can mostly get by using English, but Norwegian is needed to integrate and it makes a social life easier. norwegian is necessary for most jobs, though. Edit: To illustrate it even more: Graffiti is in english half of the time and Norwenglish exists.
  - kebman 4y ago
    My four year old cousin speaks English fluently. It's even a little eery to listen to, since she's got an all-Norwegian family and they've never lived abroad. It's of course due to screen time with various English series and games.
- kebman 4y ago
  > a country where English is not the language You'd be surprised if you ever visit. ;) In any case, Google Translate works reasonably well our written language, but you'll probably struggle with what's spoken.

ducktective 4y ago

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shp0ngle 4y ago
I don’t understand what you mean. Maybe my memory is wrong, it was a long time ago. But I really remember they even wrote explicitly it’s to limit people from using it, or something similar. If I had time now I would look into web archive to check if my memory is not deceiving me

mytailorisrich 4y ago

You should take it as a nice bonus if they publish their docs in English rather than as a given, especially when it's free and from a country where English is not the language.

Broken_Hippo 4y ago
I'm still a bit surprised these weren't available in English. It isn't the language of the country, but children start learning it at age 6. A lot of masters and PhD courses are taught in English, and some workplaces use it quite a bit, especially if they do collaborations with other countries. This would fall in that last category. I can find a lot of information from the government in English, and all of my immigration paperwork was in English - they don't require you to further translate into Norwegian. I can mostly get by using English, but Norwegian is needed to integrate and it makes a social life easier. norwegian is necessary for most jobs, though. Edit: To illustrate it even more: Graffiti is in english half of the time and Norwenglish exists.
- kebman 4y ago
  My four year old cousin speaks English fluently. It's even a little eery to listen to, since she's got an all-Norwegian family and they've never lived abroad. It's of course due to screen time with various English series and games.
kebman 4y ago
> a country where English is not the language You'd be surprised if you ever visit. ;) In any case, Google Translate works reasonably well our written language, but you'll probably struggle with what's spoken.