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people who know more than one language, are your settings in english or another language? (feddit.cl)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian

my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] tab 4 points 4 days ago

same - why try to decipher someone else's often flawed attempts at translation, when the original text is available?

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