i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian

my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    40·
    1 个月前

    All English. It’s just more practical. Every software is first and foremost written in English, for English UIs, for English-speaking users, and then internationalized. I’ll just stick to the primary design for simplicity’s sake and to reduce potential issues.

    Also, English tends to be more terse and less verbose than almost all other languages when abbreviated.

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 个月前

      Exactly the same reasons for me. And I even got used to the US and UK keyboard layouts, especially selecting the “dead keys” layout on the OS so I can easily type the specific letters/accents needed for many European languages (the few ones I speak anyway :) ).

      Another advantage of the US layout is that it’s the default on any live / installation media / remote server ecc.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 个月前

      More verbose happens to every translation. Because the original text could choose to communicate things in a way that works with that language but every translation has to include all the information in the original version.

    • tab@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 个月前

      same - why try to decipher someone else’s often flawed attempts at translation, when the original text is available?

  • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
    35·
    1 个月前

    I keep my OSs set in English, although it’s not my native language. Simply, because most articles and forum posts for troubleshooting are in english and it makes translating sub-menu titles obsolete

    • Crotaro@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 个月前

      This is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)

  • porompopmpom@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 个月前

    I usually keep all my settings in English. It makes it easier when you’re looking for help online when you need something

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 个月前

    Regardless what i do, the results are shit. If i set language to English, it tries to present me with English tranlations of German YouTubers, if i set it to German, it tries to translate English YouTubers to German. Both kinds of tranlations suck.

  • klemptor@startrek.website
    6·
    1 个月前

    I’m a native English speaker but my phone and fitbit are in French. I minored in French in college and I’m trying to shake off the rust.

    • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
      4·
      1 个月前

      My phone and YouTube are in French, everything else is in English. No idea why YouTube (and only YouTube, not google, gmail, etc) is French, one day it was and I’ve never put in the effort to change it.

      Native English speaker also.

  • Suppoze@beehaw.org
    6·
    1 个月前

    I am Hungarian, but everything I use is in English. As a software developer it’s basically the language of my work and I started consuming media in English at a young age.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    4·
    1 个月前

    All my devices (PC, Smartwatch, Steam Deck etc) are in (British) English, with the exception of my phone, which is in my native German.

  • oktoberpaard@feddit.nl
    4·
    1 个月前

    I used to have everything set to English (my second language), but nowadays I use Spanish when available (third language). I use my native language only for a handful of local apps and websites if Spanish is unavailable.

  • AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
    4·
    1 个月前

    I’m so used to seeing English everywhere that I actually have trouble navigating things like settings in my native Serbian.

  • ghashul@feddit.dk
    4·
    1 个月前

    I have everything in English, even though it is not my native language. It was what the versions of DOS were as a kid, and I got so used to it that using the Danish version seems odd to me.

  • WanakaTree@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 个月前

    I’m an American who is decent at German, living back in the US again. I set whatever I can to German to maintain my exposure to it, sometimes to my own confusion and detriment

    • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 个月前

      Same here. Gives me a new appreciation for in-app language settings, in case an app is too complicated or weirdly translated.

  • 🏴 hamid the villain [he/him] 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
    3·
    1 个月前

    Persian is my mother tongue but the most disappointing day in my life is when I realized I dreamed in English because it has been my primary language most of my life. I honestly don’t even know if I can set lemmy to Persian, I’ve never checked.

    edit: well, how about that you can.