{"id":563,"date":"2006-12-04T23:11:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/translators-amnesia"},"modified":"2007-10-21T00:36:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T21:36:34","slug":"translators-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/translators-amnesia","title":{"rendered":"Translator&#8217;s amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for an email from the library so I changed the address in my library information to my mobile email. I also set up the phone to check mail every hour (not in the middle of the night). I use the Finnish user interface and this, not surprisingly, caught my eye:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" alt=\"Email settings in Finnish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/emailsettings_fi.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First of all, it&#8217;s funny how it says &#8220;30 minuutin v\u00c3\u00a4l.&#8221; instead of &#8220;30 minuutin v\u00c3\u00a4lein&#8221; even though there&#8217;s quite a bit of empty space&#8230; (This isn&#8217;t by far the worst case I&#8217;ve seen. I&#8217;ll show you a bad one if you&#8217;re interested <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> ) but the 4th item makes you miss a few heartbeats (no? Is it just me?). How did that happen? When you look at the English options, they are nice and consistent:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" alt=\"Email settings in English\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/emailsettings_en.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I envy you who use the English UI! <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> (I know I could use it too, but Finnish feels somewhat more comfortable &#8212; despite things like these.)<\/p>\n<p>[Edit: Dec 6th]<br \/>\nBy popular demand <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> Here&#8217;s the Swedish UI<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" alt=\"Email settings in Swedish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/emailsettings_sv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for an email from the library so I changed the address in my library information to my mobile email. I also set up the phone to check mail every hour (not in the middle of the night). I use the Finnish user interface and this, not surprisingly, caught my eye: First of all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}