A fun problem I always thought would appear is that "if" is translated as "si" but "yes" is also translated as "si" which, while not really a problem, could cause confusion to newcomers as to what the keyword does. I say not really a problem because it should use "verdadero" ("true") instead of "si"(" yes"), but it might be confusing anyway

Si (miVariable === verdadero)

[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

They are actually different. Yes has the accent.

Si = if

Sí = yes

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah... Accents are a pain.

They are also a pain to type. Where I live there are 2 keyboard layouts: Spanish and Latin. 99% of people don't know how to tell them apart which means that their hardware keyboard does not match the setting on the computer, so the label on the keyboard does not match with what is typed. There are also two accents in the keyboard: á, and à which are hard to distinguish one the key starts rubbing off.

All of this means that a lot of people don't even know how to type an accent, and a lot of us never remember when we should be typing them anyway

On top of that this (programming) language, doesn't even support them. Probably because they cause a lot of encoding issues

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

you just hold alt and press the letter, por que te parece tan dificil?

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Btw, it's "difícil". With an accent

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

sí , claro, pero tengo dos excusas; estamos charlando nomás y soy extranjero.

Excusa bono : mis ojos son malissimos, asi es dificil a ver los acentos tambien.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ninguna de las dos excusas es técnicamente valida por dos motivos:

que seas extranjero que habla español quiere decir que probablemente aprendiste el idioma de grande, osea que tenés las reglas del idioma en la memoria. Yo lo aprendí cuando tenia 7 años.
todos tienen el mismo problema con las teclas de tilde. Encima entre el teclado español y latinoamericano cambia su ubicación

(soy de argentina y la mayoría del tiempo usamos el vos en lugar del tú)

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

(soy de argentina y la mayoría del tiempo usamos el vos en lugar del tú)

somos rioplantenses, asi yo tambien uso voseo. mis condolencías por tu situacíon con el loco con motosierra.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Speaking anything other than English is against community rules. I had fun but your comments might get deleted or maybe temp banned

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Speaking anything other than English is against community rules.

this thread is entrapment.

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[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nope. That is not how that works

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

dale intento con altgr

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Didn't work

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

On my linux at home it types "æ". But I'll try tomorrow on windows

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

If your language specifies support for it, sure. Might still be difficult to read at a glance.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

English-based languages potentially suffered similar conundrums, and deployed workarounds ages ago. Can't really think of one right now, we probably got so used to it we don't even see it as a workaround anymore.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is there no Spanish word for “Variable”?

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Yes. Its "variable". I know. Very original