>Today, on entering Google, I suddenly found the entire interface in the Quechua language, which I am hardly familiar with (Quechua is the language of the Inka empire, still spoken by millions of people in Bolivia and some neighboring countries).
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>I noticed that scores of languages are now available for the interface selection; but about the Quechua thing... after deleting preferences (including cookies), Google went right back to Quechua. Worse yet, it didn't save my preference for using another language.
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>Even weirder, this happens only in Opera; in Firefox, I get redirected to
www.google.com.bo (in Spanish). In both cases, I tried deleting cookies.
Turns out, I had "Quechua" selected as the "preferred language for Opera and Web pages". (Groan - I have no idea how it came that way.)
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)