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In Finnish, there's the expression "like a cat walking around a bowl of hot porridge" which means circling around a subject furtively and avoiding it instead of latching onto it head on. 'Kierrellä kuin kissa kuumaa puuroa.'

It can be used in many ways, but today I have used it to say: "Furtively circling the gay porridge instead of partaking in it." You know, about a TV show having the gays but not Having The Gays and doing something with them!

As a hobbyist/amateur gamedev, It's cool learning all the things you never knew you needed to know.

Outrageously frustrating at times, but also v cool.

Currently thinking about translations and localisations.

Does anyone #gamedev know how to approach getting translations for a largely non-text game done?

i.e. cost, how to find translators etc.

Talking stuff like maybe 200 words total, with i.g. 90% of those being 'menu words'

like, "Start game" and "Fullscreen" etc.

I'd vastly prefer having a person do the translation than machine, so I don't end up making gaffes like translating

Lead Programmer to "plomb programmeur" etc.

"Radical" comes from Late Latin radicalis, from Latin radix, radic- "root", whose own root is Proto-Indo-European *wrād- "branch, root".

This is the same source as "radish" (=root) and "eradicate", which is from ex- + radix, radic- "root out".

A radical change is one that goes to the root of things.

"When it comes to solving climate change, every word counts. From the pitfalls of metaphors to the multiple meanings of the word "energy" – this is how translators at global climate negotiations navigate the language of global warming."
bbc.com/future/article/2024110

An illustration showing two women piecing together letters in front of wind farms and electricity pylons (Credit: Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)
BBC · The people cracking the world's toughest climate wordsBy Francis Agustin