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[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Seeing recipes from everywhere but the US, and Americans asking to have the recipe ingredients converted “for them”. Sheesh...

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, but it’s not obvious how many galoshes of diced onion I need when it says 100g.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I had a roommate in college royally fuckup huge batch of very expensive ribs we'd bought for a party because the online recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic abbreviated as "garlic - 2c" and he put in 2 cups of garlic powder.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Honestly at that point just use the whole onion

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't like using country flags for languages. For one thing, not every language has a country of its own -- there are 700+ languages in use today, but <200 countries. Many languages don't even have any obvious insignia to represent them at all.

If you're making a piece of software and you want it ported to many languages, just use text to represent the language.

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

America has one of the largest Spanish speaking populations in the world, so in future web applications I will use the American flag to indicate Spanish, for the lulz

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[–] redwattlebird 1 points 15 hours ago

Ok, ok I may have a solution that will make everyone happy: let's all speak Esperanto! One flag for all!

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

When I was visiting Paris, a tour bus we got on had a audio guide, the languages were all labeled with national flags.

English -> UK flag French -> flag of France Spanish -> Flag of Spain Portuguese -> Flag of Brazil

Even in Europe Portugal plays second fiddle for it's own language

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The British, when they have to click the American flag for English, and then they see "color" without the "u":

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

Col-or what, that’s what I want to know.

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

We save it for u wot M8?

[–] Enzy@lemm.ee 7 points 23 hours ago

Speak native american!!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The unnecessary "u"s haunt us

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

At this point point, people who speak English as second language usually go "awww, how cute, the native speakers really think this is the biggest controversy of English orthography."

(Instead of, you know, everything.)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Its more just the easily memable one.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Sobs quietly

I just want a consistent spelling system.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

Or in American ...

The nnecessary ""s hant s.

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[–] Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I replaced the US flag with a UK one on my website for this reason x)

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago

As an American who does web development, "You guys have multiple languages on your websites?"

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Brit here it's our laugauge don't like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong

[–] Grazed@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Canadian here. Choosing between UK English and US English feels like choosing between an abusive father and abusive husband.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 5 points 16 hours ago

What's all that aboot?

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish there were some internationally recognized symbols to represent languages as distinct entities from their countries of origin, but the idea of trying to make some seems really unpopular for some reason.

There's other languages that have far more politically contentious flags representing them - at least all the English-speaking countries are broadly allies. Spare a thought for the Taiwanese who have to select a People's Republic of China flag, even though the language is as much theirs as it is the PRC's, or the large number of Russian-speaking native Ukrainians who have to select the flag of the country who's bombing them and their families.

The notion of a country owning a language is fraught with toxicity (indeed, Russia's claim to vast swathes of Ukraine leans heavily on it), and if languages had their own flags we could sidestep the whole issue.

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