Comments on: Why you should use English versions of your OS and other software

By: AU YA U

AU YA U — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:39:24 +0000

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By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:23:03 +0000

Great find!

By: Johannes

Johannes — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:16:28 +0000

I could not agree more with your advice. Countless times I’ve attempted to ‘re-translate’ some message to english in order to get some useful search results. Fortunately I found the not-so-well-known page http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Search.aspx and use it for technical searches. It doesn’t seem to work with complete error messages but ‘Sterownik ekranu’ yields ‘display driver’, ‘przestał działać’ gets you ‘stopped working’ and ‘ale odzyskał sprawność’ retrieves the complete english translation of the error you cited. Quite valuable place to go to from time to time.

By: WarsawExpat

WarsawExpat — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:02:24 +0000

Hi there,

Just found your website via typeit via antimoon.

As an American trying to learn Polish, I actually insisted on installing the Polish version of Windows 7.

A new OS in a new language = good times!

By: Zhao

Zhao — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:10:59 +0000

Hi, I forget about this comment for a long time. I don’t know how you searched for Chinese pages, but I search Chinese pages of “nVidia” in google.com.uk (the second option below search bar), it returns 12,800,000 results, and that is about 1/4 of English results (58,200,000). Plus, indeed there is a Chinese translation for nVidia, “英伟达”, but people don’t use as often as the original name (~2,540,000 search results).

I am trying to say that as long as the community is large enough, the power is not negligible. Moreover, if some software are used more within that community (e.g. ssh software to against GFW in China), sometimes there are more results than in English, and not to mention the convenience reading your native language.

By: czesiu

czesiu — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:11:40 +0000

This post reminds me the polish translation of last.fm musical compatibilty meter:

English
Your musical compatibility with … is Very Low

Polish
Twoje porównanie z użytkownikiem … wypada: Fatalnie

My translation back to english:
Compared to user … you really suck

Feel free to provide more close translation, I hope I’ve got the general sense right :)

just noticed: it seems google translate now gets it wrong too
http://translate.google.pl/#pl|en|Twoje%20por%C3%B3wnanie%20z%20u%C5%BCytkownikiem%0A
while
Twoje = Your
porównanie = comparison
użytkownikiem = user

By: Srikanth

Srikanth — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:06:47 +0000

We can always use google translator http://google.com/translate or babelfish.yahoo.com for getting the translation. But i accept it may not be that exact to the english version error message and that helpful.

By: Dennis Gorelik

Dennis Gorelik — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:15:32 +0000

@Niko Schwarz: why German? It’s not even in top 3 most popular world languages.

By: dontWannaPounceBut

dontWannaPounceBut — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:50:11 +0000

@Niko You see, I love my native language too. But having everything in English makes sense. Its easily the most commonly spoken language on Earth. Keyboards are designed with English in mind. There are many language scripts for which keyboards are perhaps merely painful adaptations – nothing close to being ideal input devices for those.

Perhaps English is already most common language used on internet and in software interfaces too. So, why not take advantage of that fact instead of wasting resources based on petty differences?

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:59:21 +0000

Google Groups returns only 472,000 results for “nVidia” in Chinese (simplified and traditional combined). That’s still 1/36 of the English figure. I am assuming here that “nVidia” would not be transliterated into hanzi. Please correct if wrong.