What Language Am I Speaking?
Multilingual sites often trip over themselves with incomplete or incorrect translations. It’s very hard to keep track of every detail of a site in multiple languages (I know, I’ve done it), but some things are so fundamental that you’ve got to double- and triple-check them for accuracy.Via Michelin, which I used to use for maps and directions before Google got good, keeps sending me newsletters. I’m in the midst of a mailbox decluttering campaign, so I search all over the newsletter for a way to unsubscribe. Finally, I realize that the link I need is not only in very small type - it’s in French! (while the rest of the newsletter is in English, as I requested). Thanks to knowing Italian, I can figure out just enough French to realize that “Me désabonner” probably means “Unsubscribe me”.

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