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Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english. https://www.arte.tv/en/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1676462/
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/048080-001-A/hatufim-in-der-ha...
Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english. https://www.arte.tv/en/
I recently discovered what a documentary is for an American and it's night and day. American documentaries are entertainment package with actions and conspiracies. There's really not a lot of discovery and knowledge.
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The challenge isn’t with the script - it’s with lack of acceptable technical vocabulary in Hindi/English. Video works because Hinglish is how tech-talk in (many, not all) companies works. But you’d never see a technical doc in any of the these companies in Hindi, because you can’t even translate simple terms like Server or package-management. Even if you find acceptable translations, they aren’t immediately obvious,…
So if I understand correctly, Latin characters aren't used for loanwords like this in written text? When I was young I used to play some MSX games in Japanese, the language doesn't really matter for a lot of these 1980s games, and you would frequently see English words and terms written in Latin characters used all over the place. Why won't this work for Hindi? Are people not familiar with these characters? Or is the…
It happens in casual text - WhatsApp forwards, SMS messages. But for official writing - you pick a language and stick to it, as much as possible. This made more than a few notices impossibly hard to read when I was in college, because the Hindi felt archaic, even if it wasn't.
Other countries had a rich culture of research and scientific literature published in native languages. India never got that to a national scale, because India has hundreds of languages[0] so any efforts were local. A paper published in Tamil would be unreadable by folks a hundred miles away, so English became the technical lingua-franca of the nation (The colonial imposition didn't help either).
When a developer searches stack-overflow for an answer, english works better because it serves all developers in India.
[0]: India scores 0.914 on the Linguistic diversity Index, which ranges from 0 (everyone has the same mother tongue) to 1 (no two people have the same mother tongue)
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Germany is fine with you not being able to ingest their documentation. If there is ever a need to do anything it would be the need for you to learn German and the need for anyone monolingual to learn a second language. The more balance in the world the better place it would be.
I agree with your point on principle, but to balance a bit: I'm trilingual but don't (yet) speak German. Yes there's no fair reason why English should be the standard language, but there's value in a standard language and that's the closest we have. Edit: I'm not American and English isn't my native language
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Apologies to you on behalf of people who made you feel uncomfortable.
Full disclosure:
I had (still have?) negative biases/sentiments/stereotypes towards Americans: being ignorant, self-absorbed, reckless, careless etc.
And this almost made me have a knee-jerk reaction to the expressed desire to make the content in question available in English. As if I am tired of you Americans Americanizing everything you touch[2]. This sentiment is also expressed in Ramstein's song "Amerika"[3].
But that's why it is called a "stereotype". I shouldn't stereotype a population of +300 m out of a small sample size (that includes YouTube/Twitter too). I lose a lot of potential good/bad experiences if I continue to do that. And even if, for the sake of the argument, 90% match my silly stereotype, I still should have an optimistic modus operandi. Pessimism/cynicism is a counterproductive trait. You should be an optimist[1].
But putting all that aside, what makes you think that the inquirer is an American? He could be a French person knowing Japanese and Russian besides English.
Anyhow, we shouldn't follow protectionist policies. Nothing good comes out of that. We should be thankful/appreciative to people who are willing to share content with others (open source, creative commons, etc.).
References:
[1] Algorithms to Live By
[2] https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/01/04/report-plays...
[3] https://youtu.be/Rr8ljRgcJNM
Edit: for the people who take issue with my post here: I would appreciate a feedback on why my post is counterproductive/bad. Thank you!
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Sweden has prisjakt.nu, and Japan has kakaku.com that serve the same purpose, they're both great! It's so nice to be able to drill down into any product in any product category (for kakaku this is not just tech products but contact lenses, credit cards, movers, electricity providers, car insurance, phone plans, etc) using the specs you want, and then sort by intelligently selected columns like $/TB for a harddisk. Am…
Prisjakt (Pricespy) is very deep in Swedish online shopping culture. I wonder if Amazon realizes what they are up to. It does make their website feel superfluous to me and more like what what I'd expect from a company of the year 2010. What I like most about Prisjakt is that they don't try to second guess what I want given a basic search phrase. Instead, Prisjakt gives me the categories to drill down into tables. Sor…
I would mention hitta.se from Sweden. Probably a privacy nightmare to some, and very creepy to others. On the page you can search peoples home address, phone number, date of birth, other members living in the same house , real estate value, mortgage rate, all by searching their names. I successfully once identified a parent of a owner of a lost wallet, only containing a gym card with last name on it. Found her phone…
Hungarian tech forum; think tech only reddit. The thinkpad thread used to host quite a decent knowledge in the x200 modding era.
http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_lista.php
Oldschool electronic circuit board drawings, also Hungarian.
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Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
Or more people need to learn German? The community is already there, obviously — if others want to join, that's how they do it.
- Germany: ARD, ZDF, DW, Deutschlandfunk
- France: France.TV, RadioFrance
- Spain: RTVE
- Portugal: RTP
- Italy: RAI
- Switzerland: RTS, SRF, RSI, RSR
- Sweden: SR, SVT
- Denmark: DR
- Norway: NRK
They all have websites that are pretty easy to find and although some content is region restricted, a lot is not.
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I agree with your point on principle, but to balance a bit: I'm trilingual but don't (yet) speak German. Yes there's no fair reason why English should be the standard language, but there's value in a standard language and that's the closest we have. Edit: I'm not American and English isn't my native language
Authors addendum: This post was a mistake on my part. Please downvote this post. Thank you! I would rather have a retract option, but there is none here on HN. Original post: Apologies to you on behalf of people who made you feel uncomfortable. Full disclosure: I had (still have?) negative biases/sentiments/stereotypes towards Americans: being ignorant, self-absorbed, reckless, careless etc. And this almost made me h…