Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

[Guest]

"All languages (that use the Latin alphabet) have the same alphabetical sorting order."
oh this one is very unexpected to me. Does someone know an example? I'm curious

[Guest]

Many examples are listed on Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_order#Language-specific_conventions

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

I believe French does this as well. To answer in the affirmative to a negative question, you use "si" instead of "oui"

"Si" is also the word for "if", which has probably confused people.

(top search hit, not sure if good, but on a quick glance it looks correct https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/si-in-french )

[Guest]

In Denmark we have the digraph "aa" that is the same as "å". Since "å" is the last letter in the Danish alphabet, "aa" must be sorted likewise. Hence the ordering Aalborg -> Allerup -> Middelfart is incorrect and the correct ordering is Allerup -> Middelfart -> Aalborg.

The exception is if two a's end up besides each other due to compounding words: "ekstra" + "arbejde" gives "ekstraarbejde" but here it is not a digraph so ekstraarbejde -> ekstrabetaling is correct ordering as well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet

[zerofk@lemm.ee]

Middelfart?

[wieson@feddit.org]

In German Ä comes after A, in Swedish Ä comes after Z

[Guest]

The great city of Middelfart https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middelfart

[Guest]

For real. I've seen the fingerprinting info, I know your website can see what language I've set, so display your website in that language!

[mirthfulalembic@lemmy.world]

English used to have this! Yea/nay for positive, and yes/no for negative I believe. The former fell out of common use.

[Guest]

"Every country has exactly one “national” language." - Switzerland meanwhile lol

[Guest]

Do you know the etymology of these words? My understanding is that they aren't exactly "Yes" but more "As you say" or something similar. But I am no arabicist.

[Guest]

It's not too smelly, but it's not completely benign either.

[Guest]

google.com/ncr

[bamboo@lemm.ee]

I don’t know any Vietnamese, but I suspect it would be as awkward of an answer as “not no” in English.

[Guest]

I’m sure it would. But in many languages a double negative just reinforces the negative. Hence the question.