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I've always wondered how all this mickey branded stuff exists since I got here, especially with major brands. Do you have any insight into why so many signs ar
by _3u10 2y ago
I've always wondered how all this mickey branded stuff exists since I got here, especially with major brands.
Do you have any insight into why so many signs are in English? I can understand maybe foreign brands, but local mom and pop stores have giant signs like "50% Off. #partytime" especially businesses where no one speaks english.
- sombragris 2y ago> Do you have any insight into why so many signs are in English? I can understand maybe foreign brands, but local mom and pop stores have giant signs like "50% Off. #partytime" especially businesses where no one speaks english. That "casual English" is somewhat part of the language of the new generation. They're more like catchwords, because people don't really speak the language. People, especially young urban folks, use it to appear "cool".
- euroderf 2y agoSame phenom in Finland. But then it gets kinda weird when recruitment ads have job titles in English and then the body text in Finnish.
- pvaldes 2y agoPeople spent more time reading your job offer if is explained in their own language. Less friction, more eyeball time, that is what you want if you are a recruiter.
- euroderf 2y agoOh, sure. It's not the Finnish body text that throws ya off. It's seeing that after the big, bold English job title !
- calpaterson 2y agoSpeaking of - I'm organising a coffee morning for HN readers here in Helsinki. Get in touch (email in my profile) if you want to come along
- dustincoates 2y agoThe same thing with job titles happens in France, too. Also, back when tech meetups were more common, you would often have where the title and description were in English, and the talks in French.
- archi42 2y agoNot only tech... I live close to the French border. My wife asked me to go to some criminal dinner event thing in France, and all the leaflets and the website were English. Great! Checking out the details, a small remark in a table with the dates and such catches my eye "Language: French". Well, maybe that's the French date,... Nope, that's for all scheduled events. Kthxbye. At least we were not surprised on site, because my French c'est no bene.
- nkozyra 2y ago> That "casual English" is somewhat part of the language of the new generation. It's a near global lingua franca and the Internet has only accelerated that. I wonder how long it will be until English just sort of becomes first language in non-native English speaking countries with the current trajectory and momentum of English-first Llama. Shame it couldn't be a more cohesive spoken language.
- throw__away7391 2y agoI have observed in dozens of countries that the youngest generation now speaks English quite fluently in most of the world. Boomers might know only a few phrases, many millennials can speak well enough, but quite a lot of teenagers now are speaking fluently, using slang and making jokes.
- razakel 2y agoI've heard of kids becoming fluent in English before their mother tongue simply from exposure to subtitled TV and movies! It's usually countries where the market is too small to justify dubbing.
- johnisgood 2y agoLike Lojban?
- keybored 2y agoIt won’t happen except in the imagination of mono-lingual-future dreamers on HN (popular idea here for some reason).
- altruios 2y agoWell, speaking in different languages facilitates different modes of thinking which results in different thoughts. Some thoughts are easier to have in one language than another. It takes all sorts to make a world and multiple languages means a broader mental space to explore ideas. People against that tend to lean totalitarian. People for a monoculture, that is. That is an inherently limiting philosophy which can only die out as it narrows the 'acceptable ideas' list over time.
- gwervc 2y agoReminds me off all the "テイクアウトもOK" (Take out is also possible) mentions that flourished on restaurants in Japan during covid. There was already a Japanese equivalent that existed (お持ち帰り) but I guess that was less fashionable.