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what’s the difference between globalisation and internationalisation? that’s simple. globalisation is a word that terrifies fascists, whereas internationalisation is a word that terrifies programmers
@hikari
This is why it gets abbreviated to i18n.
@AlisonW like the true name of g-d
@hikari 🤔... 🤗💕
@hikari 🤣
Except some programmers are also linguists. So we're simultaneously even more terrified than the other programmers (because we know *just how hard* the problem is), and yet also intrigued and attracted in spite of ourselves...
@kagan hey that’s me! I have a degree in linguistics (…but work as a software developer)
