A lot of poorly translated software suffers from translations that obviously lack context. This is especially common with labels for UI elements like buttons and menu items.
A lot of AWS suffers from that -- for example, the AWS Lambda interface is translated so poorly to German in some places that I had to switch to English to understand what the options are supposed to do.
For example, there was a permission setting labelled "öffnen", (which is a verb and means "to open") when the correct translation would have been "öffentlich" (public).
Or in another case, the command "Exit" (as in leave the program) was translated as "Ausfahrt" (as in a highway exit).
Mistakes like that make it cery hard to use localized software. How do you suppose you can fix that?
A lot of poorly translated software suffers from translations that obviously lack context. This is especially common with labels for UI elements like buttons and menu items.
A lot of AWS suffers from that -- for example, the AWS Lambda interface is translated so poorly to German in some places that I had to switch to English to understand what the options are supposed to do.
For example, there was a permission setting labelled "öffnen", (which is a verb and means "to open") when the correct translation would have been "öffentlich" (public).
Or in another case, the command "Exit" (as in leave the program) was translated as "Ausfahrt" (as in a highway exit).
Mistakes like that make it cery hard to use localized software. How do you suppose you can fix that?