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Interface language != spoken language. If you are Ukrainian you might choose an interface in Russian or English for many reasons, familiarity, quality, etc. May
by zarzavat 3y ago
Interface language != spoken language. If you are Ukrainian you might choose an interface in Russian or English for many reasons, familiarity, quality, etc. Maybe they don’t want to context-switch.
For most Ukrainians, Russian is (was?) a happy medium between being a language that they understand, and a language that is well supported in localizations.
I speak en-GB but I prefer an interface in en-US. Yet if you asked me to speak en-US with all its grammatical, lexical and phonological differences intact I would fail because my understanding is read-only.
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoen_GB vs en_US is largely a locale choice. Many developers in EU choose en_IE to have English translations, €, Monday 1st day of the week and comma as fractional separator. Ukrainian vs Russian is a cultural choice. I sm sure that 80/20 ratio is old news by now, anyway.