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Falsehoods programmers believe about languages (www.lexiconista.com)

submitted 4 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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I can’t believe nobody has done this list yet. I mean, there is one about names, one about time and many others on other topics, but not one about languages yet (except one honorable mention that comes close). So, here’s my attempt to list all the misconceptions and prejudices I’ve come across in the course of my long and illustrious career in software localisation and language technology. Enjoy – and send me your own ones!

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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Geolocation is an accurate way to predict the user’s language.

Now that's a pet peeve of mine, a bizarre belief surprisingly often held by people, who must be oblivious to the existence of tourism.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This. When I was in Mexico on my honeymoon, Google kept redirecting me to their .mx version of Google; despite my inability to read Spanish.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And I always want the english version instead of the german version, despite me being german. Literally only google fucks that up. Every other site, even the small local german Uni website or the canteens meal site, respects my browsers setting. Google does not, and serves me german.

[–] monzool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

google.com/ncr

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