#and the saddest part is that i genuinely see the value of machine translation
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Have to rant for a moment. I am so sick of machine translations. I have to look at different apps for work a lot and it's so disheartening how many developers seem to treat UI text as the lowest possible priority. The thing that gets me the most isn't grammar errors or stiff phrasing, but words that were translated way too literally, like translating the English word "fixed" as if it meant "repaired" when actually the meaning was "fixed in place". It's so annoying and makes navigating these apps way harder than it should be sometimes. And I get the economics of it, but man, it just feels bad. Because not having English as your mother tongue already puts you at such a disadvantage in so many ways, and it seems like soon English speakers will even be the only ones to be able to read and understand their oven manual or whatever.
#i'm being dramatic but also not#this shit really gets on my nerves#and this isn't even apps for cheap amazon devices!!! this is apps for products that cost several thousand euros! luxury items!#and the saddest part is that i genuinely see the value of machine translation#i use deepl all the time to read fanfiction in foreign languages that don't have fanmade translations#but I feel like if you make people pay for your products? if you want to operate in a market that doesn't speak your language??#you should invest a little money so the locals can understand the fucking user instructions#like that's not too much to ask right?
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Have to rant for a moment. I am so sick of machine translations. I have to look at different apps for work a lot and it's so disheartening how many developers seem to treat UI text as the lowest possible priority. The thing that gets me the most isn't grammar errors or stiff phrasing, but words that were translated way too literally, like translating the English word "fixed" as if it meant "repaired" when actually the meaning was "fixed in place". It's so annoying and makes navigating these apps way harder than it should be sometimes. And I get the economics of it, but man, it just feels bad. Because not having English as your mother tongue already puts you at such a disadvantage in so many ways, and it seems like soon English speakers will even be the only ones to be able to read and understand their oven manual or whatever.
#i'm being dramatic but also not#this shit really gets on my nerves#and this isn't even apps for cheap amazon devices!!! this is apps for products that cost several thousand euros! luxury items!#and the saddest part is that i genuinely see the value of machine translation#i use deepl all the time to read fanfiction in foreign languages that don't have fanmade translations#but I feel like if you make people pay for your products? if you want to operate in a market that doesn't speak your language??#you should invest a little money so the locals can understand the fucking user instructions#like that's not too much to ask right?
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