Mastodawn

aah, the reason why the in-app kindle purchase flow in german has a button labeled "Bitte lesen" (which translates to "Please read") for opening the purchased ebook is that someone mistranslated "Read now" as if it was meant in imperative form?

My favorite out-of-context translation fail was some internal status page in Chrome years ago, which described sandboxing status as (translated back to English) "you have trained sufficiently".

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Jann Horn 7h ago

I wonder how many tech workers who speak English as a second language actually dogfood their company's stuff in their native language. I have most stuff on my devices configured to have english UI (except stuff like public transport apps which are probably primarily developed with german UI)

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Sandor Szücs

@jann I use the same pattern.
It would be great if the company I work for would allow me to prefer to buy in German, but yeah we can dream if your browser is set to English we redirect to English.