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[rant]why do english/chinese companies don't give a damn about other languages..
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--- Quote from: coppice on September 21, 2016, 12:25:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: setq on September 21, 2016, 11:48:29 am ---This is why:



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Its not just the Chinese who have this issue. Look at this from the UK:

This looks fine unless you can read Welsh, where the lower part apparently says "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."

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Gaelic also. Funny they used the out of office translation there though.



<3 my taffy brothers. At least they're not Scottish  :-DD
TheBay:

--- Quote from: setq on September 21, 2016, 12:35:51 pm ---Hahaha I just ran it through Google Translator and that's exactly what it says.

Agree with Delta

This doesn't surprise me. The only reason people write/talk Welsh is to be bloody awkward.

As for BBC Alba, I have a toddler and I get shafted by "I want to watch that episode of Bing" on iPlayer. "You can't, it's in Welsh". Fffffuuuu.

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True this, to be awkward or to be pretentious!
JPortici:

--- Quote from: dannyf on September 21, 2016, 12:58:26 pm ---A simple cost and benefit analysis: between English and Chinese, you can cover 99 percent of your target market. Then why bother with the last 1 percent?

Figuratively speaking.

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well if you aim at getting more customers in some markets presenting yourself with materials in the customer's language should give you points (because you care enough to adapt to their customs), for some could also be a cultural thing.. that's how i see it.

for example, fluke with the common electrician (who could still have a low education.. and kids here are stubborn, they don't want to learn the language anyway, the idiots) so they must present themselves in italian. but the electrician will read "update every four seconds" and move on to another brand.

as i said in the OP and in every other post in this topic, you don't have to translate but if you do, damn you, do it right. i get livid when i download an app and i can't change the language to english.
SeanB:
Come to South Africa, where we have 11 official languages, but pretty much every person is at least able to speak English to some degree. Can be fun to be in an office with a conversation going on in at least 2 languages, with all keeping up.
ebclr:
The answer in Portuguese is

OOO
    B
    B
    B
    OOO

Something like small ooo obey Big's OOO

And actually the Big's o's ate USA and china, who cares about freench, portuguese , italian, tonganese and any othe "exotic" labguages, Read exotic as PIB
   
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