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10+ years ago Google was seen as savior of local languages at least in some Eastern Europe countries - Google announced that they will support all EU official l

10+ years ago Google was seen as savior of local languages at least in some Eastern Europe countries - Google announced that they will support all EU official languages fully in all theirs software, including Android etc. Now we can safely say that they managed to kill a lot of local language usage. Local scientists claim that most of kids younger than 20 have seen a very little texts with good quality - the majority is machine translated low quality stuff.

pohuing 3y ago
Not even eastern Europe. The German translation of MS Teams lists my Co-workers as free of charge...
- kridsdale1 3y ago
  Too bad the translators hadn’t thought about the FOSS ‘free’ distinction.
  - pohuing 3y ago
    I was thinking more of an innuendo on sex work but maybe that's just me
- Mordisquitos 3y ago
  Not even just non-English languages. The British English version of Windows was in the spotlight not so long ago for infamously describing `.zip` files as Postcode files.