• Scrollone@feddit.it
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      4 days ago

      Yes, I also hate it!

      The Italian version of Excel had the brilliant idea of translating the MID() function into STRINGA.ESTRAI(), which means “extract string”.

      Seriously, what the fuck.

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        3 days ago

        The localisation of office software functions is atrocious in all languages. They should have defaulted to Volapuk, so that at least we could all suffer together.

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          It should have been Latin so at least you could feel like a magician or something

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              I would happily pull out my old dictionary and grammar books, for sure!