Lack of French at Vancouver Olympics revealed ‘insensitivity,’ report says

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The first few entries are dialects of German, French, English and French again all spelt out in Hindi.

Never mind that they say German for all dialects of German except the one spoken in Germany, which is just called Germany, and that Canadian French is called French, while other dialects of French are called Fransisi. The big question is, how on earth do you change your language to French or German if you cannot read Hindi?

Someone went too far with localising language names.

Oh yeah, this is a photo of my screen, because you can't take a screenshot before logging in.

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