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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
> On 29/01/2024 16:18, David Brown wrote:
>> On 28/01/2024 20:49, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>> On 28/01/2024 18:24, David Brown wrote:
>>> I'd expect that most general purpose programs written by Norwegians
>>> use an English interface, even if it isn't really expected that the 
>>> program will find an audience beyond some users in Norway. Except
>>> of course for programs which in some way are about Norway.
>> Why?
>>
> Generally programmers are educated people and educated people use
> English for serious purposes. Not always of course and Norway might be 
> an exception. But I'd expect that in a Norweigian university, for
> example, it would be forbidden to document a program in Norwegian or
> to use non-English words for identifiers. And probably the same in a
> large Norwegina company. I might be wrong about that and I have never
> visited Norway or worked for a Norweigian employer (and obviously I
> couldn't do so unless the policy I expect was followed).

You assert that "educated people use English for serious purposes".
I don't have the experience to refute that claim, but I suspect
it's arrogant nonsense.  I could be wrong, of course.

Even given that assumption, you ignore the possibility that programs
might be intended to be used by non-programmers.  You ignore my own
examples of software I've worked on that can be configured to show all
messages in any of several languages, including Norwegian, presumably
because there's a demand for it.  And you ignore the statements of
someone who lives in Norway and knows what he's talking about.

Consider not making definitive statements about things you don't know
about.

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