So the names of the options literally translate to:
Row Above
Row insert beneath
Colums Left
Insert Column Right
Not only are they named inconsistently and only partially translated. The capitalization is also seemingly random.
Corpos are still gonna spend their money at microsoft. Even if ms literally took a shit on your desk they still would pay for that shit and ask for more.
I remember when IBM translated hard disks as “rigid disks” in French for some reason, in defiance of the established usage.
And apparently the shortcut key r doesn’t stand for rechts (right) but for insert. Which is not only English but also the one thing all of those for options have in common.
At this point I think there’s some kind of code hidden here. Maybe the localization AI is trying to tell us something.
link left
link right
link top
link top
link bottom
link centere
Localized Office is a big heaping pile of trash. In my language in Teams you need to toggle “Show number” on, to hide showing your number. Make it make sense.
Shown’t number
In German, Teams used to show people as “kostenlos” which does mean “free” but in the sense of “free of charge”, not “available”. They fixed it eventually but it caused much confusion with people asking if there are times when the calls are not free of charge.
My personal Teams translation highlight was a hint explaining to me how I could reorder a list. It said “Nachbestellung hier”. Which again does mean “reorder here” but reorder as in the thing you do when you buy the same thing again, a repeat order.
Some Windows 11 versions had translated ZIP (i think the archive format) as postal code in not US English. Not even English is safe.
Yup, same! Our agents don’t make themselves “available”, they make themselves “free of charge” (gratis)
I’ll have to check the reorder one, but that’s funny too. Billion dollar company!
Bing Translate is jest the best.
I have been a translator for few random projects about 10 years ago when my English was probably at around B1 level max. And yet I still have seen translations much worse than what I was able to do. Blows my fucking mind to be honest.
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We should explain the issue in all detail to the Microsoft support so they can guide us to the windows update documentation.
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It’s just a registry entry you have to reset after every update bro
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If it was over paper you could at least use it to wipe your butt.
I’m assuming OP is forced to use Microsoft’s shit at their job but for everyone else:
I’m using Libre Office at my job. Whenever I can get away with it I use the open document format as well.
You can’t expect a billion dollar company to employ a translator.
Maybe they employed four instead and they each translated differently. /s
LibreOffice for the win
Ok but the biggest crime was rebinding CTRL+S to underline in the Italian version. To save you had to CTRL+B (which doesn’t even make sense)
Bewahren?
Bave my document please
Dokument Bichern
There’s a very good reason for this.
Microsoft’s localization team is just three monolinguals and Copilot. And the monolinguals are all managers.
I develop software products and we put so much attention into how we design and arrange them, including the naming of things.
Then we send everything off for batch translation by some service that probably doesn’t give a flying fuck because they’re just using AI anyway. And we have no way to check their work because we don’t speak all the languages.
I wish we could have in-house people for this.
Why can’t I see content on feddit.org?
Do you mean the enlarged picture? It could be that you run a script-blocker and it is blocking the javascript of the instance. If you click the picture again or the post link it should link directly to the file on feddit.org w.o. requiring javascript.
Insert Spalte Rechts
Yeah, Microsoft fucking sucks. German has ~95 million speakers and is one of the most spoken languages of the world. And Microsoft, one of the most profitable companies in the world can’t be bothered to even do some minor translation work. I don’t even expect them to translate every help document on their page, but menu items in the main ribbon? And Edge is showing totally garbled weather infos on every new page. To millions of people. Because they don’t want to hire one or two guys to proofread their texts.
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Yes, that is the plan. My private IT has been Microsoft-free for a while. There is an old PC with Windows standing around, but everything else runs on linux. Works great :)
(work is, of course, something else as I don’t have anything to decide about the software there)
