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Nor does Beehaw, I just remembered
Reading through this thread really makes me wish Esperanto or some other auxiliary language caught on
Isnt that english?
If you mean “is Esperanto English”, the answer is no, they’re pretty different, Esperanto combines elements of latin and slavic languages. If you mean “Isn’t English already an auxiliary language”, the answer is also no. English is a lingua franca, not an auxiliary language.
Fascinating, I didn’t know about auxiliary languages
At this point it’s almost 2 decades of English uis only everywhere I can. Phone, computers, tv, etc.
Just makes life easier.
Sometimes I see or interact with someone else phone or computer and my brain just freezes in panic because I have no idea about the words and concepts that people see in my native language.
My GNU/Linux computer has been set to Basque language for three decades. It works good.
English, English is the standard medium of education in India, I don’t even know most academic concepts in my native language so no point in making it harder for myself, also read English faster and easier too simply because that’s the language I was educated and read in.
Oh right also I’m dumb, India is in the anglosphere.
Thai language
English, with custom key bindings for accents etc. Mostly because I hate AZERTY with a passion.
Pc in English phone in mother tongue for some reason. Probably because it didn’t bother me that much. I can’t be assed to debug my pc and translate all the buzzwords in my head and programming is better when the keyboard shortcuts work without having to set them up manually.
English. Arabic is very neglected translation-wise and mixing LTR and RTL is mindnumbing
Oof I can imagine
Neither
Troubleshooting is done with
LANGUAGE=EN.Computers and phone: Spanish
Most of the software that allows me to change the language setting: Spanish too
Exceptions: MTL’d stuff or when i feel like deliberately using another lang Funny case: Y’know Turkey is both the name of the country and the bird associated with thanksgiving / christmas? Yeah, gues what did I see once in a country selector (the country is Turquía, the animal is pavo)
English, because:
a) I’m used to it. b) Looking up error messages in my mother language is a giant pain.
Since I let the browser to English so is less unique in the fingerprint I also let my computer in English.
A particular thing in Linux that I notice when I started using it. In the Windows even in other languages the Downloads/Music/Documents/Image/Video folders their paths are in English while Linux is the name of the folder so in the other languages this shit can be annoying to deal.
English. It’s my second language & I’ve been using it in all my electronics since the 90s. Easier to understand programming too.
