Re:FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity
by pauloxnet on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:16PM
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Thanks a lot for sharing your experience it's really great to learn more about FLOSS and its community.
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Re:FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity
by WalterBright on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:36PM
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There were some fun moments in this. In attempting to translate "destructor" to Japanese, we'd get "death tractor". Now, personally I felt that "deathTractor" was a far more apropos term than "destructor" (sorry Bjarne). For years my circle of colleagues called them deathTractors.