Ian Duke 🆔
Matthew ‘Matt’ McVickarI’m filling out personal information for a doctor’s appointment and these were the suggested language choices.
Robin Syl 🌸
@matthew I ran into something like that too, it was weird af
steph@matthew I don’t see hwæt the problem is
Brian Pierce
David Cantrell 🏏@BrianPierce @urschrei @matthew þ ð 😛 (compose t h and compose d - on my keyboard, config available at https://github.com/DrHyde/configurations/tree/master/karabiner)
Jordi (Tubal Hippy)Your Doctor may be a Time Lord. #DoctorWho
Mrs.Hudson 🌱
Tim Carmody
2WaterGuns@matthew Probably just took the standardized language list and didn't take the effort to prune out the obsolete entries.
Pasi Kallinen@2WaterGuns @matthew Probably ISO 639-2 - there should be Klingon on the list too ...
Andrew@matthew start typing “Kli” and see what it suggests. I bet I know their data source for this
ericatty
flatplanet@matthew is Latin an option?
Martin@matthew That looks like something ChatGPT would do. :-)
Ron DeSantis's BDE
Matunos@matthew was it an appointment with a doctor of history?
larice@matthew seeing a Druid
Florian Diesch@matthew It's nice when older people are thought of as well.
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@matthew Þat's convenient.
Bragg@fishidwardrobe @matthew alþough I þink we should bring back the þorn, as we’re no longer limited to the printing press.
Christ van Willegen
proedie@matthew Can one select Klingon?
CHB@matthew Generous of them to include the older generations 👍👍👍
potpie@matthew giese soþe, ic angilde speake eald englisc
ein kleines z@matthew
Pleeeeeaaaaase someone fill out the form in Middle or Old English 😂
Pleeeeeaaaaase someone fill out the form in Middle or Old English 😂
Christopher@matthew choose old, just for funsies. What does that change about the doctor visiting experience, I wonder? 🤔
Dan Herbert@pandakaebi @matthew There are phone-based interpreter services available for offices that need to care for someone who doesn't speak the same language(s) as the doctor/nurse/medtech. This field would help the office be prepared for that, but I doubt they have medical interpreters for old English, though it would be impressive... 🤔
BoxOfSnoo@pandakaebi @matthew he’d probably mostly check the balance of your humors
AlexanderMars@matthew I wonder if language choice also rolls back associated treatments and payment options?
Pat Madigan@AlexanderMars @matthew A blood-letting would cost but a few farthings.
Permacultureandpolitics@AlexanderMars @matthew like paying for cupping and bloodletting with a chicken?
@Permacultureandpolitics @matthew it would be a lot cheaper than my co-pay!
miyelsh@matthew for when you get the Bubonic Plague and need a doctor with experience
acb@matthew Hwæt‽
Philipp@matthew Ooh, I think it may be using the same list as this one that I had to fill out once https://chaos.social/@pb/109830866291605476
Philipp (@[email protected])
Attached: 4 images This form wants me to specify my native language and instead of a free-form text field, the designers chose a combo box. It comes with options for Latin, Klingon and eighth-century German. Not Spanish though.
CrankyOldBugger 
@matthew Pick Old English, and you get a complimentary leeching!
David O'BrienI’d have gone for Old English and brushed up on Chaucer.
Rodney Simba 🇿🇼 🇺🇸 :verified:
none gender with left politics
king toot uncommon@matthew I'm going to want to meet that interpreter
Christian Schwägerl
FortunateFool 🧊🦐@matthew which did you choose?
@matthew which did you choose?
Steve James@matthew
You: apothecary, apothecary, it doth hurtest me so when I doest thusly.
Apothecary: well verily, doest thou not thusly.
You: apothecary, apothecary, it doth hurtest me so when I doest thusly.
Apothecary: well verily, doest thou not thusly.
krakalak 
@matthew That's hilarious.I hope you went with Old English. Maybe your appt confirmation arrives on a parchment scroll 😋
Jeff GriggIs your doctor a gerontologist? 😕
Timothy Ingalls 🏳️🌈@matthew if you pick the wrong one will you end up getting a blood letting?
Stacy@matthew Oh please, please, pick Middle English.
@CrashNBurns 
@matthew i really hope you chose “Old” - would love to see those translated emails sent your way
Bob Harveyhwa andcwiss beodan þu?
MrsMiggins@matthew ooh, at last...my degree is of use in the real world!!!!
Nick B. 🇬🇧 🌳
onosendai7@matthew Huzzah!
JP@matthew that looks like the same set of languages they use in the #OpenLibrary! Perhaps someone’s nabbed a set of languages meant for *books* and strapped it to a place that needs spoken locales not knowing the difference 😅
aethervision@matthew I’m going to go out on a limb and say that choosing Old English confines your treatment options to leaches, horse piss poultices and amputations.
Bill, organizer of stuff@matthew What, no proto-indo-european?
M. J. FrombergerWhan that a persoun sholde fucce aboute, than mote it be anon he fyndeth oute.