Comment by peterburkimsher
10 days ago
I used Copilot to play a game "guess the country" where I hand it a list of names, and ask it to guess their country of origin.
Then I handed it the employee directory.
Then I searched by country to find native speakers of languages who can review our GUI translation.
Some people said they don't speak that language (e.g. they moved country when they were young, or the AI guessed wrong). Perhaps that was a little awkward, but people didn't usually mind being asked, and overall have been very helpful in this translation reviewing project.
I see the ".fr" in your profile; but, in the United States, that activity would almost certainly be a conversation with HR.
If you really, really wanted help with a translation project and you didn't want to pay, professional translators (which you should do since translation-by-meaning requires fluency or beyond in both languages), then there are more polite ways of asking this information than cold-calling every person with a "regional" sounding name and saying "hey, you know [presumed mother tongue]?"
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... to be clear, you're saying that banning prejudicial activities at companies is a reflection of how "entitled" the US has grown to be?
You understand why they're banned, right? We have a very recent and loud history about why we ban discrimination like that - or at least did.
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Are you suggesting France is specifically gaining competitiveness through applied racism?
Sorry, I'd rather be uncompetitive than stoop to that
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A good chunk of Americans would have ended up with GUIs in Polish, just sayin’