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TIL when you change your region from US to UK in Mint, "Trash" becomes "Rubbish Bin." (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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I mean fair enough, but it made me laugh.

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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Throwback to Microsoft renaming "zip file" to "postcode file" in English.

The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I'm sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, this feels like a courtesy thing. I just didn't expect it.

(And only just now noticed after switching three weeks ago since this was the first time I had to delete anything in all that time.)