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And then tacking on to another poster's "Thai test": there are multiple semi-canonical ways to transliterate Thai to English, and I can only imagine the landsca

And then tacking on to another poster's "Thai test": there are multiple semi-canonical ways to transliterate Thai to English, and I can only imagine the landscape for Thai to other languages. Added to that, times of day can be referred to in several ways (1 PM could be, literally, "afternoon o'clock") and sometimes different words for the different "sections" of the day, e.g. 7 PM is "1 evening". Depending on your audience and intent. Lots of variation. As an American, it's really eye-opening to learn other languages and cultures and apply that context to your work in software.

Doxin 2y ago
It's pretty wild how different languages can handle things differently. Even basic stuff like numbers. Thank goodness we've standardized on using arabic numerals most of the time. writing out numbers is a mess. E.g. in dutch the last two numbers get swapped when written out: 21 -> "eenentwintig" -> "one and twenty" French gets especially zany: 80 -> "quatre-vingts" -> "four twenties" I'm sure there's about a million more ways languages have wildly differing concepts of numbers from what you expect. Now repeat the above exercise for numbers, dates, money, names, just about everything.