Oooh, odd!

[bunn]

Logged into LJ this morning and found all the menu options and links are in Cyrillic script - actually, I think they are probably in Russian, although sadly my Russian is non-existent, so I can't be entirely sure of that.

I assume that the wrong language has been associated with my account, and have reported it. It's an interesting insight into what it must be like trying to use those parts of the web built for monolingual English speakers, for someone with no English.

You'd think, too, given that I've had an LJ for tumty-tum years and use it a lot, that I would remember where at least some of the options were without a label cue, but no! Even the friends page link I got wrong!

I hope they can put it back, although I suppose if they don't, it will be an excellent educational opportunity for me to get some basic Russian... Right. Now which of these buttons is 'Post', I wonder? :-D

ETA - figured it out! It was my theme - I had language set to 'default' in http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml 'default' presumably used to be English, and is now Russian. Thankfully, the customise page doesn't use my theme, so I could read it and change the language to English (UK). Still seems odd that this resulted in me getting my 'you have made a support request' acknowledgement email in Russian!

ETA No I haven't I thought that had fixed it, but then noticed that everything was in Russian if I clicked through to view someone else's full post including comments. And when I log in in another browser, I get 'Мы рады снова видеть вас в LiveJournal!' Ah well.

Comments

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Not sure from your comment if you know that Спам is just Spam...? Amusing that cheap wartime british tinned meat substitute has made it into Russian by a circuitous route and a completely different meaning -N

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I thought it *might* be - but it was being used where the English says 'Delete', so I wasn't sure. I think in English, spam in both senses is a noun, so it's made the leap to verbitude too.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Maybe being too anal here, but *technically* "спам" is a noun, sorry (Russian has clear endings for verbs). It would be even more awesome if there were a verb "спамовать" to go with it, imperative form спамовуйте IIRC (hopes desperately). I do remember being told circa 1990 of the loanword "кликовать"="to click with a computer mouse" and enjoying that... N

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Is there anything you aren't good at, Neuromancer? ;-)

Edited to correct horrible typo!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It may be formatted as a noun, but if it's being used in practical terms as an imperative - ie a stand alone word that means 'Computer, kindly delete this comment and file it under 'spam' , if you would*' then surely it is functionally a verb?

* I'm quite glad that function labels don't have to be formatted like that, although it would somehow create a leisured, faintly Regency air if they were. :-D

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

You're probably right, but am pretty sure it's not a grammatically a verb in Russian! -N