Post #2077395
2026-04-02 13:13 UTC
This brings us to Russian, a language I can claim to know the best of all the six official United Nations languages. The Russian translation is seriously horrible.
"Awareness" is translated as "spreading information", which is not wrong, but kind of stiff.
And why "problem"?! That word is negative and completely unnecessary. Maybe I should engage some Russian autism groups and ask to change it?
https://www.un.org/ru/observances/autism-day
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@aharoni@wikis.world 2026-04-02 13:21
I know #Arabic much less well, but enough to see that the Arabic name of this day is اليوم العالمي للتوعية بمرض التوحد. The word for awareness is توعية, which is fine, but "autism" is translated as مرض التوحد. The first word مرض there usually means "illness". The Arabic Wikipedia article about autism is called just توحد, without مرض. https://www.un.org/ar/observances/autism-day