i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian
my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese
I keep my OSs set in English, although it’s not my native language. Simply, because most articles and forum posts for troubleshooting are in english and it makes translating sub-menu titles obsolete
This is exactly what I wanted to comment.
This is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)
All English. It’s just more practical. Every software is first and foremost written in English, for English UIs, for English-speaking users, and then internationalized. I’ll just stick to the primary design for simplicity’s sake and to reduce potential issues.
Also, English tends to be more terse and less verbose than almost all other languages when abbreviated.
same - why try to decipher someone else’s often flawed attempts at translation, when the original text is available?
Exactly the same reasons for me. And I even got used to the US and UK keyboard layouts, especially selecting the “dead keys” layout on the OS so I can easily type the specific letters/accents needed for many European languages (the few ones I speak anyway :) ).
Another advantage of the US layout is that it’s the default on any live / installation media / remote server ecc.
More verbose happens to every translation. Because the original text could choose to communicate things in a way that works with that language but every translation has to include all the information in the original version.
Persian is my mother tongue but the most disappointing day in my life is when I realized I dreamed in English because it has been my primary language most of my life. I honestly don’t even know if I can set lemmy to Persian, I’ve never checked.
edit: well, how about that you can.
everything in english
i’m better at english than my native language lul
Spanish is my first language, but English has pretty much taken over so PC is all in English, phone is all in English.
I’m born and live in Russia, but I use english everywhere, except for specific topics. And also I can’t read books on english yet
i know bilingual people who DON’T read english
I’m an American who is decent at German, living back in the US again. I set whatever I can to German to maintain my exposure to it, sometimes to my own confusion and detriment
Same here. Gives me a new appreciation for in-app language settings, in case an app is too complicated or weirdly translated.
I used to have everything set to English (my second language), but nowadays I use Spanish when available (third language). I use my native language only for a handful of local apps and websites if Spanish is unavailable.
same
english, it is better handled by computers at all levels
I usually keep all my settings in English. It makes it easier when you’re looking for help online when you need something
Native Spanish and English speaker, Lemmy settings are in Spanish. I’m used to my settings being in Spanish because I grew up in South America with electronics naturally being set to Spanish.
Also, when I’d go to Google something for my friends, it was more efficient to have them read it, rather than just translating.
For example:
I remember someone asking me about religion in Poland (they were Polish and didn’t know and also didn’t have their phone with them) so they asked me to look it up. It was more efficient, like I said, to just have them read this.
i thank you for this as a hispanic dude with a polish mom
I’ve got my stuff in Japanese. Just trying my best to keep it sharp and not let English kick it out of my brain (which it is aggressively trying to do.)
Regardless what i do, the results are shit. If i set language to English, it tries to present me with English tranlations of German YouTubers, if i set it to German, it tries to translate English YouTubers to German. Both kinds of tranlations suck.
That might be more of a VPN issue, no?
Nah, its an issue of Youtube pushing/forcing their bs “AI-“Features””
I’m so used to seeing English everywhere that I actually have trouble navigating things like settings in my native Serbian.
As someone whose second language is French and has everything in French, set your computer to English. it’s so much easier to Google error messages when they’re in English.
