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Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In addition to everything said, people underestimate how god awful some translations still are. Stuff like date pickers where May is translated as "maybe" or "three days left" where "left" is translated as "opposite of right". Even for websites I'll prefer the original language even if I don't exactly speak it, and then translate myself the part I need.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 4 months ago*

    If you see bad translations in open-source projects, please help by fixing them :)

    It's a straightforward way to contribute to open-source, even if you know nothing about coding, and it helps a lot. It's hard for open source projects to find good translators.

    The other thing that really helps is improving documentation. Developers hate writing docs :)

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