Pseudolocalization is a software testing method used for testing international aspects of software. e.g Instead of translation the text into a different language, the elements of the text are replaced by a bunch of foreign character.
Sometimes, it might come in brackets and three exclamation marks, some counter effects is that it might be harder to read, example shown below;
Jack: "Hello Windows"
Windows: "!!! Hèℓℓô Jáçƙ! !!!"
Jack: "...was that Pseudolocalization? It's way harder to read."
Windows: "!!! Ýèáλ ƨôřř¥, ωè'řè ïñ βèƭá ƭèƨƭïñϱ. !!!"
Jack"...okaaayyyy"
The fake belonging of a person or group to a defined location. A mental state often exhibited by new residents in cities throughout the world.
‘The students exhibit pseudolocalism by using colloquial words from an area to which they have only just moved .’
The point in which someone decides they belong to a location where they did not grow up.
Person 1: Yo man, how’s the move to New York going for you though?
Person 2: Yo, that was ages ago, I'm at the bodega right now. I'm real New Yorker now bro.
Person 1: Sure, sure. That’s pseudolocalism bro.