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That makes me happy. I'm all for national languages, ethnic nuances etc (I'm not English-native-speaker myself), great spell checkers, voice recognition, fonts, etc for all languages.

But for text work (writing, reading, etc).

Not on my fucking programming languages (like bizarro foreign variable names in source code), and ideally, not on my CLI either.

Let's have a common universal language in our domain.

Doctors get to use latin names and common terms for tons of medical staff whatever their country. Pilots get to speak english with every control tower all around the world.

Computer work should have some of that too.



There's a difference between having source code and CLI commands in a hodge-podge of languages and not having translations of man pages.




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