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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 32 points 6 months ago

Slut is Swedish for stop, but then the button labels are in English, so I'm confused

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

It's Danish. Here's the full image showing more buttons in Danish:

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

I wish my washing machine had Slut Summer options.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Eww danish /s

[-] TaTTe@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

As a non-Englisman, I'd say it's pretty normal for devices and house appliances to have physical text in English but software in another (local) language.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Yeah, especially stuff like "start/stop" or "on/off", that universal language by now.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 6 months ago

start is swedish for start and stopp is swedish for stop. leaving out a single p for i18n reasons does not really make the labels into a foreign language

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

Is "i18n" a typo or some term I'm not familiar with?

[-] lime@feddit.nu 12 points 6 months ago

it's developer-speak for "internationalization". i didn't want to type it all out on my phone. it's a very stupid abbreviation because it conveys no information.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To expand on this: It's common practice in IT/dev/devops to shorten things by first letter - number of letters in between - last letter

So you get things like i18n - internationalization, l10n - localization and k8s - kubernetes. Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz also seem to think they're important enough that people should call them a16z. Which apparently some people do.

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I think the best one is a11y (accessibility) because it looks like ally so it's easier to remember

[-] Alxe@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Adding some context: it's because there are 18 abbreviated letters, hence i18n.

[-] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

In Danish, which the OG image is from, Stop is with only one P. Interestingly it is with two Ps in Norwegian as well.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 6 months ago

yeah i just realized it can't be swedish because of the "o/min" text. i thought danish spelled it "slud" though. my biases are showing.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

star,t stop and ok would be the same in swedish as in english

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