absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115849251057488746
absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization. this is why i use VPNs: to search the web beyond gringolandia; to read the web in other languages & not gringlish.
if you want to know how pigheaded a business "culture" is, look at how they force localization ―and this includes search engines.
then there’s the damage done to plurilinguism by Microsoft Office.
i hate the illiterate techbro, one language at a time, model of reading & writing.
develop for plurilinguism or GTFO
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115849251057488746
absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization. this is why i use VPNs: to search the web beyond gringolandia; to read the web in other languages & not gringlish.
if you want to know how pigheaded a business "culture" is, look at how they force localization ―and this includes search engines.
then there’s the damage done to plurilinguism by Microsoft Office.
i hate the illiterate techbro, one language at a time, model of reading & writing.
develop for plurilinguism or GTFO
FYI:
multilinguism ≠ plurilinguism
@MastodonEngineering should be really proud of themselves because we have here the closest thing to a plurilingual platform.
multilingual platforms allow you to write in the language of your choice, usually with the app completely translated into the language of your choosing.
on plurilingual platforms, you can write in whatever language you choose and regardless of localization.
that’s Mastodon today.
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FYI:
multilinguism ≠ plurilinguism
@MastodonEngineering should be really proud of themselves because we have here the closest thing to a plurilingual platform.
multilingual platforms allow you to write in the language of your choice, usually with the app completely translated into the language of your choosing.
on plurilingual platforms, you can write in whatever language you choose and regardless of localization.
that’s Mastodon today.
it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115849251057488746
absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization. this is why i use VPNs: to search the web beyond gringolandia; to read the web in other languages & not gringlish.
if you want to know how pigheaded a business "culture" is, look at how they force localization ―and this includes search engines.
then there’s the damage done to plurilinguism by Microsoft Office.
i hate the illiterate techbro, one language at a time, model of reading & writing.
develop for plurilinguism or GTFO
@blogdiva Please, from now on use #MacroslopOffice beiing the correct name.
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it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
btw: when Bush & Cheney were getting ready to invade #Iraq, i started translating news from EU & Latin America that were not being reprinted or followed up by USA media.
BBC, El Pais, they would block americans from their sites. L’Express never did; neither news sites from Canada, México, Brasil. so i was a one-woman RSS feed, circumventing geoblocks, quote posting (yes, they existed before twitter) what caught my eye or blogging full translations.
USA media has never been trustworthy.
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