as a software developer, when we test software in multiple languages we invent a dummy language to make it obvious that all texts are changed when we press “Change language”
We had a language like “AAAAAA” where the texts on all the buttons and all over application was just ‘aaaaaaaa’s – so it was very easy to spot if we forgot to internationalize the text of a button.
Just in case the political situation changes and the Italians come back
Saves time having to translate into Italian, Romanian, Spanish or Portuguese. (French is too degenerate to have some overlap with Latin, of course)
They saved some money by not installling Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romenian versions.
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as a software developer, when we test software in multiple languages we invent a dummy language to make it obvious that all texts are changed when we press “Change language”
We had a language like “AAAAAA” where the texts on all the buttons and all over application was just ‘aaaaaaaa’s – so it was very easy to spot if we forgot to internationalize the text of a button.
Just in case the political situation changes and the Italians come back
Saves time having to translate into Italian, Romanian, Spanish or Portuguese. (French is too degenerate to have some overlap with Latin, of course)
They saved some money by not installling Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romenian versions.
Atlantean was also considered