Office 2000 is good to go

Re:Office 2000 is good to go by Someone1234 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:04AM (#29242108)

I've had to teach people to use PCs many times, it used to be so much easier for this reason. You'd teach someone that "this icon mean THIS" and that would be that, but today that is impossible because there are five different graphics/ideas for each thing (plus of course iconography used to use analogies from real-life, like a pen for Word, bin for throwing stuff away, folders, etc).

Windows 10 never really reached self-consistency in six years, and it seems like Microsoft just doesn't care at this point with Windows 11 now just layering more contradictory concepts on the unfinished Windows 10 ones.

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by SubiculumCode on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @04:52PM (#29246782)

Its to the point where I'd rather have text than icons in the various menus.

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by endgame on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:19PM (#29247023)

Look at old pictures of (say) Netscape Navigator. Despite having far fewer pixels we somehow had enough to label our icons. What went wrong?

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by vb6sp6 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:47PM (#29247265)

Globalization happened

English "250 views" = 8 chars wide German "250 mal angesehen" = 17 chars wide

English "FAQ" = 3 chars wide Portuguese "Perguntas freqüentes" = 20 characters wide

It isn't uncommon for english words to expand 200-300% when translated to other languages.

I'd love to see a german, italian, or portuguese version of netscape to see how they fit those labels

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by CmdrKrool on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @07:50PM (#29248205)

> I'd love to see a german, italian, or portuguese version of netscape to see how they fit those labels

https://aware7.de/wp-content/uploads/Netscape_4.png

Doesn't look like a showstopper, at least for the specific toolbar icons that Netscape had.

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by GekkePrutser on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @08:17PM (#29248356)

"Verwandte Objek" seems cut off, it should be "Objekte" but other than that it aligns pretty well.

Ps my German is basic so perhaps I'm wrong

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by vb6sp6 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:00PM (#29249170)

nice find! There are a few English bits on there: guide, stop, shop. Wonder why

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by vurpo on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:43AM (#29249617)

"Guide" and "stop" are not only English words, but present in lots of European languages. "Shop" is a common loanword from English in lots of these European languages.

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by SubiculumCode on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:50PM (#29247282)

I imagine that abbreviations are common in these languages?

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by vb6sp6 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:05PM (#29247383)

It really depends on the phrase. FAQ was just used as an extreme example.

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by faqfaq on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:14AM (#29249506)

The French made up a translation to fit the acronym.

FAQ = “Foire aux questions”, where “foire” is the French word for a fair, a place where you go to see many things (in this case, questions).

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Re:Office 2000 is good to go by abakker on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:02PM (#29248906)

I think when I was in 4th grade, using Netscape, I spoke english but didn't know what FAQ meant. I think I probably searched it on Altavista.

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