Re:Donald Knuth celebrated his 80th birthday in Piteå
by gliptic on Sunday January 21, 2018 @07:43AM
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"När du googlar" is literally "when you Google". Ironic, he could translate others but not himself ;). "Datavetare" would be more correctly translated as "computer scientist" and I'm surprised it doesn't do that. It's the literal translation, just like "naturvetare" means "natural scientist".
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Re:Donald Knuth celebrated his 80th birthday in Piteå
by eesmith on Sunday January 21, 2018 @06:47PM
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Might Google be doing this deliberately in order to prevent their name from becoming a generic trademark?
That is, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark , "Google has gone to lengths to prevent this process, discouraging publications from using the term 'googling' in reference to Web searches."