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Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pmk@piefed.ca 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I used to translate things in Debian, but I stopped for this reason. It's making it harder for everyone. People in sweden don't know the swedish technical word for "routing", but everyone knows what a router is. (Trivia, the word is "dirigering".)

[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 3 points 6 hours ago

Well that's just the sound a bicycle bell makes, no wonder nobody takes it seriously