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  1. Kääntäessä huvittaa, kuinka tärkeitä pankit ovat (tai ovat olleet): englanniksi ”bank holiday” tarkoittaa sellaista erityisen suurta juhlapäivää, jolloin jopa pankit ovat kiinni. KDE:n käännösjonoissa ”memorial day” -käsitettä avataan niin, että töistä ja koulusta ei saa vapaata ja pankitkin ovat auki. Suomessa on varmaan tämän määritelmän mukaan lähes pelkkiä pyhäpäiviä, koska pankkeihin pääsee harvakseltaan ja yleensä vain ajan varaamalla. #kääntäminen #L10n #pankit #kulttuuri #muutos

  2. Looking for testers 🌍

    ihasmail's UI now ships in nine languages besides English — de, es, fr, ja, nl, pt-BR, ru, uk, zh-Hans — and I'd like native speakers to check the wording.

    No Stalwart server needed use the demo: demo.ihasmail.com/

    Source: github.com/Coffey-Labs/ihasmail

    lnkd.in/gN6ae3Fd

    #i18n #l10n #selfhosted #webmail #ihasmail #stalwart

  3. A #Fediverse tech idea I've been considering for a while.

    Hashtags can sometimes be annoying, right? Their primary application is finding posts related to a certain topic, including following one. Therefore, if I look for "horses", I want to find everything horse-related.

    The following hashtags should therefore lead to the same set of posts:
    - #horse
    - #horses
    - #equines
    - #equine
    - #horsetodon

    Right? But that's not a reality. Some people tag with one of them, with multiple, or with none at all.

    Similarly, #Döner, #Doener and perhaps even #Doner should lead to the same set of posts, right? And what about British-American-splits like how #Localization is #Localisation, and perhaps even #l10n as well? And #LGBT, #LGBTQ, #LBGTQ+, #LGBT+, #LGBTQIA and so on and so on also really should be one hashtag.

    So what to do?

    I propose:
    We should introduce a second symbol for something like "fuzzy hashtags". Not the '#' symbol, but another; perhaps '&' or '~'.

    That way I could tag my post '~horse', and it could appear on all hashtag feeds concerning the different spellings of horses! Or I could search for such a fuzzy hashtag.

    The different variants could be crowdsourced, or overridden by instance mods. You could also opt-out of that system - your posts showing up in fuzzy searches, most likely.

    This would also fix languages like German, where you have many inflected forms: #Männer #Mann #Mannes #Manns #Männern #Männers and so on should all lead to the same result.

    Behold what I have to do to sign off on this post:
    #MarkupLanguages #MarkupLanguage #Markup

  4. The #Guix web site is now available in Czech and in Lithuanian in addition to a dozen other languages! Oni eĉ povas legi ĝin Esperantlingve. :-)

    To help with translation, check this out 👇
    guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/h

    #FreeSoftware #l10n #LinguisticDiversity

  5. Thanks to @roptat and to the translators, guix.gnu.org is now available in two new languages: Taiwanese and Turkish. 👏

    You can help translate #Guix and its web site to your language, we'd love that!

    👉 guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/h

    #l10n #FreeSoftware #LinguisticDiversity