Language selection menus

[ewx]

I don't think they've thought this through:

Just to emphasize the point, imagine you're looking for “English”:

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

They’re not in quite the same order in fact - I think the “current” one is always first. For speakers of European languages it might be sufficient to find something which uses the Roman alphabet but I can imagine Chinese users being completely stymied.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Yes, in the Chinese list I'm pretty sure Chinese is first and English second. (The others I can't remember.)

[antinomy.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that will permute the rest of the list really excitingly unpredictably, if they're all unknowns!

[pm215]

And the third one ought to be "legalese", right? :-)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Sort of :)

"French", though.

Just like the last one isn't "virtue-ese" but "German". (And the one between them is "Spanish".