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[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 54 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, fuck Excel for this. I always hate to look up function names in German.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I also hate it!

The Italian version of Excel had the brilliant idea of translating the MID() function into STRINGA.ESTRAI(), which means "extract string".

Seriously, what the fuck.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The localisation of office software functions is atrocious in all languages. They should have defaulted to Volapuk, so that at least we could all suffer together.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It should have been Latin so at least you could feel like a magician or something

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

I thought of Latin, but then some people actually speak it, so they'd have an unfair advantage.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I would happily pull out my old dictionary and grammar books, for sure!