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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The joke is that it's hard to tell if this is a joke because the lines between good intentions, corporate jargon, and feasibility have been blurred beyond recognition both here and in the real world.

It's also funny that after all these years, i18n is still a mess. Moreover, even if translations are standard in GUIs and documentation, for some reason, everyone is okay with defaulting to English for the oldest form of computer interaction.

Also, the joke is whatever you want it to be. Follow your dreams.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

that's because as a non-english native, it's WAY easier to have the whole computer in english. obscuring options and error messages (by translating them) makes it much harder to fix problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this is not a joke, it’s a gripe

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If those are exclusive, Carlin wasn’t a comedian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They’re not exclusive but this isn’t a joke and a gripe - it’s just a gripe.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

My gripe: I hate when people make stupid Lemmy comments.

Look I made a funny!

(The point is to show that all gripes are not automatically jokes...)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's not funny because i18n is anything but. Don't divide people, unite them.