i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian
my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese
ExtremeDullard ( @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ) 24•1 month agoAll English. It’s just more practical. Every software is first and foremost written in English, for English UIs, for English-speaking users, and then internationalized. I’ll just stick to the primary design for simplicity’s sake and to reduce potential issues.
Also, English tends to be more terse and less verbose than almost all other languages when abbreviated.
KokusnussRitter ( @KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 24•1 month agoI keep my OSs set in English, although it’s not my native language. Simply, because most articles and forum posts for troubleshooting are in english and it makes translating sub-menu titles obsolete
win95 ( @win95@lemmy.zip ) English5•1 month agoThis is exactly what I wanted to comment.
Crotaro ( @Crotaro@beehaw.org ) 1•1 month agoThis is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)
Suppoze ( @Suppoze@beehaw.org ) 6•1 month agoI am Hungarian, but everything I use is in English. As a software developer it’s basically the language of my work and I started consuming media in English at a young age.
klemptor ( @klemptor@startrek.website ) 4•1 month agoI’m a native English speaker but my phone and fitbit are in French. I minored in French in college and I’m trying to shake off the rust.
skankhunt42 ( @skankhunt42@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 month agoMy phone and YouTube are in French, everything else is in English. No idea why YouTube (and only YouTube, not google, gmail, etc) is French, one day it was and I’ve never put in the effort to change it.
Native English speaker also.
klemptor ( @klemptor@startrek.website ) 2•1 month agoInteresting! My google apps all changed to French, I wonder why yours didn’t.
HatchetHaro ( @HatchetHaro@pawb.social ) English4•1 month agoeverything in english
i’m better at english than my native language lul
porompopmpom ( @inamorta345@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 month agoI usually keep all my settings in English. It makes it easier when you’re looking for help online when you need something
double_quack ( @double_quack@lemm.ee ) English4•1 month agoenglish, it is better handled by computers at all levels
AccountMaker ( @AccountMaker@slrpnk.net ) 3•1 month agoI’m so used to seeing English everywhere that I actually have trouble navigating things like settings in my native Serbian.
schnurrito ( @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 month agoMost things are in German, but if something isn’t translated to German yet or I can’t be bothered to change it from English, it doesn’t bother me much to use it in English either.
oktoberpaard ( @oktoberpaard@feddit.nl ) 3•1 month agoI used to have everything set to English (my second language), but nowadays I use Spanish when available (third language). I use my native language only for a handful of local apps and websites if Spanish is unavailable.
nom_nom ( @nom_nom@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 month agosame
Persian is my mother tongue but the most disappointing day in my life is when I realized I dreamed in English because it has been my primary language most of my life. I honestly don’t even know if I can set lemmy to Persian, I’ve never checked.
edit: well, how about that you can.
PonyOfWar ( @PonyOfWar@pawb.social ) 2•1 month agoAll my devices (PC, Smartwatch, Steam Deck etc) are in (British) English, with the exception of my phone, which is in my native German.
frank ( @frank@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 month agoI just want to comment on how good Gboard is with multiple languages that share a keyboard (or nearly do). It’s gonna be the hardest thing to give up in my slow de googling process.
I used to have English/Spanish and now English/Danish. It will autocorrect mostly to whichever mode you’re in first, but will do some and not fight you on the secondary. Very good for like a conversation in English but an address in another language.
I don’t think it adds anything to my Japanese keyboard layout, just have to swap each way
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•1 month agoAnd you can set the layout while still having the localized letters (e.g. polish keyboard + special characters with qwertz layout)
Aurora ( @AuroraGlamour@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 month agoNative Spanish and English speaker, Lemmy settings are in Spanish. I’m used to my settings being in Spanish because I grew up in South America with electronics naturally being set to Spanish.
Also, when I’d go to Google something for my friends, it was more efficient to have them read it, rather than just translating.
Aurora ( @AuroraGlamour@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 month agoFor example:
I remember someone asking me about religion in Poland (they were Polish and didn’t know and also didn’t have their phone with them) so they asked me to look it up. It was more efficient, like I said, to just have them read this.
i thank you for this as a hispanic dude with a polish mom
WanakaTree ( @WanakaTree@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month agoI’m an American who is decent at German, living back in the US again. I set whatever I can to German to maintain my exposure to it, sometimes to my own confusion and detriment
monovergent 🛠️ ( @monovergent@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 month agoSame here. Gives me a new appreciation for in-app language settings, in case an app is too complicated or weirdly translated.