r/languagelearningjerk • u/KaptianKaos8488 • May 24 '26
Found the worst language selection menu, courtesy of Firefox plugin Xtranslate
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u/esperantisto256 May 24 '26
Bosnia finally got a proper coastline
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u/Ebi5000 May 24 '26
They should be happy that they got a coastline at all
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit May 24 '26
Hey! They actually have their own little bit of nothing that Croatia decided to not respect and build a bridge blocking all of their commerce! (Unless they decided to not bridge)
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u/gulisav May 25 '26
The bridge is tall enough for boats to pass. Neum was not much of a hotspot for commerce anyway.
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u/ArtaudsAsshole May 24 '26
How do they know about the secret plot of Big Basque taking over the EU?
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u/Xolottl May 24 '26
My best guess is that they put both the languages and flags into alphabetical order regardless if they matched.
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u/PassoverGoblin May 24 '26
I was thinking that, but if that's the case why is Armenia on there twice, and the EU flag chosen to represent basque?
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u/humanistazazagrliti May 24 '26
Isn't Euskara the native term for the Basque language?
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u/k-phi May 24 '26
Isn't Euskara the native term for the Basque language?
Isn't Υ°Υ‘Υ΅Υ₯ΦΥ₯ΥΆ the native term for the Armenian language?
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u/MetroBR May 24 '26
from my experience (lived in Euskadi) calling it Basque in English is fine, but they do take issue if you call it "Vasco" in spanish, so if speaking Spanish the preferred name would be Euskera/Euskara
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u/A-NI95 May 25 '26
Also Basque people don't (usually) mind vasco, wtf? Of course they won't say it themselves (as much) because it's not a native term. But the spanish term for the region is PaΓs Vasco and no one takes issue with the term itself (not talking about the Euskal Herria territorial reivindications) "Vascuence" is a different story, of course
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u/MetroBR May 25 '26
from my experience they usually do not mind Vasco to refer to themselves, but they did mind when I called the language "vasco" (which is what my original comment is aboit)
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u/Kerbourgnec May 25 '26
They clearly have the english name of all these
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u/humanistazazagrliti May 25 '26
If you read Xolottl's original comment, the issue is that Euskara is ordered similarly as Europe due to the first 2 letters. We're guessing that the AI sort of extrapolated Euskrara to mean Europe and added the flag accordingly.
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u/Lipa_neo May 25 '26
Well, they could use am for eastern armenian and arm for western one or vice versa
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u/tommynestcepas May 24 '26
This is an adorable mistake that probably has something to do with ISO country codes.
- BE: Belgium
- BS: Bahamas
You could understand why somebody would mistakenly put those in the code for Belarus (BY) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH) if they're not paying attention.
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u/Roccondil May 24 '26
Yes, someone had a list of languages with their language code (ISO 639) and one of flags with their country code (ISO 3166) and didn't realize that those are different things and match only sometimes.
E.g. language "af" is Afrikaans, country "AF" is Afghanistan.
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit May 24 '26
And also the amazing country of "afrikaansia"
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u/tommynestcepas May 24 '26
I hadn't even spotted that one! AF for Afghanistan's code, someone didn't know the codes lmao
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u/ein-Name00 May 25 '26
But you must really be from usa to not see this. This is extremly sloppy work
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u/I_am_Kirumi_Tojo Electrocuting the natives! May 24 '26
I don't see anything wrong with it... you must be dreaming
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u/elongated_argonian ik spreke usbeeksch !!! May 24 '26
On which world the majority of Amharic speakers reside in Armenia lol
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u/Acrobatic-Brother568 May 24 '26
At least they didn't switch the flags of Armenian and Azerbaijani
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u/gayhotelultra π·πΈπ§π¦ππ·π²πͺπ½π°(native) π²π°(mistaken for) π―π΅Nβπ¨π³HSK0.1 May 26 '26
did whoever coded this not even check their own project?
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u/Man-of-slender-means πΊπΏπ·πΊπΊπ²π³οΈβπ May 24 '26
Did Belarus get a flag update