Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?

Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by lioeters on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:11PM (#28175277)

In Japanese it's バグ ("bagu"), "a fault or defect in a computer program".

A funny slang term is バグる ("baguru") - it's an artificially constructed verb that means "to behave buggily", often used to describe when a game or software glitches.

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Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by burgerrito on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:36PM (#28177625)

I recently starting (re)-learning Japanese, and I realized that they have a lot of clever slang! My favorite one is 鯖(saba) which means mackerel, but they use it as a slang for server/game server, because it sounds similiar to サーバー (sābā) which means server in Japanese. There are many others, I'm pretty sure, but this is the one I can think of.

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Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by cocoa19 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:47AM (#28178374)

Aha, that brings back memories of Zelda's characters named Bagu and Error.

So that's what's up, Zelda II programmers were having fun with names.

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Re:Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages? by deeteecee on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:57PM (#28175849)

i recently learned their word for a video going viral which is the verb バズる ("bazuru" aka buzz)

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