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A comment on Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?.

Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by sharikone on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:00PM (#28174450)
In Hebrew it's mostly bug (באג).

However there is an official translation "teqel" (תקל). It is a derivative of a root that means "to stumble". It suggests a resolvable setback more than an "error".

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Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by firefoxd on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:38PM (#28176629)
Here I was thinking it was Paamayim Nekudotayim.
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Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by high_byte on Saturday August 14, 2021 @03:12AM (#28178721)
php IS the bug
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Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by 2rsf on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:06AM (#28195961)
I googled תקל and got zero results which are not dictionaries...
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