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To be fair, everyone is committing this crime: Amazon, Google, IBM... as a native spanish speaker, I have never wanted to read documentation in spanish: it is u
by estebarb 11mo ago
To be fair, everyone is committing this crime: Amazon, Google, IBM... as a native spanish speaker, I have never wanted to read documentation in spanish: it is usually of lower quality, not up to date and uses translations of technical terms that make it impossible to reconcile with the rest of the literature (I'm looking at you, dragon book translation. Nobody says "canaletas" instead of "pipelines").
At least before the translations were done by profesionals, but now they are done with tech capable of hallucinating new stuff itself... I'm trusting translations even less than before.
- happosai 11mo agoNot everyone, just American companies. When people don't value something (like foreign languages) they dump the job to the AI.
- Levitz 11mo agoIt goes beyond that, a lot of content really shouldn't be translated to begin with. I'm Spanish, yet I set my system to English because I know that at some point I'm going to look something up or I'm going to come upon some error, and it doesn't matter if the system is perfectly translated, the information I'm going to be able to find is different. There's a flexibility, a leeway for words that go from one language to another that distort terms and make finding information harder.
- mghackerlady 11mo agoThe only 3 languages worth writing documentation in are English Chinese and Japanese as far as I'm concerned. I only include Japanese because I've read some Japanese game console docs and they were done pretty well
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- josefritzishere 11mo agoI would add Spanish to that list. It's the 2nd most popular native language in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
- ethbr1 11mo ago"Spanish" as one single standardized language is being a bit charitable though.
- haakonhr 11mo agoAs opposed to English?
- ethbr1 11mo agoEnglish has a pretty heavy thumb on the linguistic unification scales via American and British cultural export weight. If India and Nigeria kindly did the needful and exported more English-language cultural content, the situation would be more similar to Spanish.
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- loloquwowndueo 11mo ago“Shell script” - “libreto de cápsula de sesión” :) (and mind you, this translation _was_ done by a supposed professional back in the 90s where it was basically the only option.