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> but [the] average user is monolingual That's certainly true in America, but my understanding (as an American myself) is that it's not true in much of the wor
by Wowfunhappy 1y ago
> but [the] average user is monolingual
That's certainly true in America, but my understanding (as an American myself) is that it's not true in much of the world! In Romania for example people speak Romanian and English; in Ukraine they speak Ukrainian and Russian. I'm not sure how this nets out in terms of the overall population of technology users, but it's a large chunk of people!
P.S. For what it's worth, I downvoted you because you said "I'll be downvoted for this", not because I thought the rest of your comment was bad. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- anal_reactor 1y agoIt's just frustrating to see how clueless people here are on the topic of multilingualism, despite being otherwise well-rounded. They genuinely think that the reason why platforms support multilingualism so poorly is different from "market forces proved that multilingual support is not an important feature".
- Wowfunhappy 1y agoIt could also be a market failure borne of how America-focused the big tech companies are!
- anal_reactor 1y agoNot really because in many cases American big tech replaced local solutions, so from purely economic perspective, they must've been better.