As a Canadian I've lost track of how many times I've had websites go "oh, you're in Quebec, we're going to default to French now" despite having never lived in Quebec.
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as a french canadian, im so sorry for you
aug 23, 2025, 8:20 pm • 6 0 • view
On a tangentially related topic, it annoys me that software is in general built around the assumption that people speak only one language. I don't need translations between Russian, German and English, just serve me the content in the original language ffs.
aug 23, 2025, 9:48 pm • 10 0 • view
Same in Sweden, none of us needs English to be translated. Being offered a suggestion is one thing, having it pushed by default is annoying, not being offered the original language at all is offensive
aug 24, 2025, 3:54 am • 4 0 • view
I have to use the browser to re-translate it back to English because the websites won't do it, so it's two translations on top of one another
aug 24, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
also assuming that your one language is the language of the country you're at
aug 24, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Feels especially good if you travel a lot.
aug 24, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
or websites force-Spanishing themselves in Brazil, where no one speaks Spanish, and refusing to switch to any other language
aug 24, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view