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by imrejonk 577 days ago
A system not supporting non-latin characters in personal names is pitiful, but a system telling the user that they have an invalid name is outright insulting.
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notanote 577 days ago
That’s the best one of the lot. "Dein Name ist ungültig", "Your name is invalid", written with the informal word for "your".
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rossdavidh 577 days ago
They're trying to say that you and the server are very close friends, you see? No, no, I get this is not correct, just a joke...
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account42 575 days ago
Formal pronouns in German are on their way out anyway, including in but not limited to software interfaces.
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account42 575 days ago
It's only insulting if you want to be insulted. You'd do better learning to understand that its a computer system and not a personal attack.
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imrejonk 574 days ago
While I agree with you that an error message like this should not be taken as a personal attack, it still causes a horrible user experience. It’s not like the developers of these systems had no choice in the wording of these errors: they picked the insensitive computer-says-no option, while they could have went with an apologetic “Sorry, our system does not support special characters” instead.
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