They have well written news segments where it comes up relatively frequently at the moment. I don't have cause to talk much about AI to my kids yet so time will tell which terminology they adopt.
Relax, nobody's saying to take your beer and Lederhosen away, but why force your own translations to established industry technical words onto students?
It just creates confusion and hampers further self learning and cooperation as the lingua franca of IT is Englisch anyway.
But that's beside the point.
The original point we if the vast majority of the technical IT jargon is English anyway why do you also need to change them to German for a course or industry? Why not keep those words in English?
Are you going to force UK speakers to say truck, fall and cookie, too?
I'm not talking about languages, I'm talking about the specific words of IT jargon which all originate from English.
>Are you going to force UK speakers to say truck, fall and cookie, too?
No, because those words are not universally used technical IT words bound together by a common language.
With your logic then every country should translate the mnemonics of the programing languages from English to their local languages too, no?
So the "while()" loop will be "während()" in German version of C and "pendant()" in French version of C.
"I'm not talking about languages, I'm talking about words" ...? What do you think words are a part of
> With your logic then every country should translate the mnemonics of the programing languages from English to their local languages too, no?
Programming languages are not natural languages. The comparison doesn't make sense.
No, but it's pretty typical to see Brits talk about datacenters, computer programs and sometimes even catalogs, as opposed to datacentres, computer programmes and catalogues.
Those are established popular terms with nearly half a century of usage. Newer or less popular terms are often just English.
> Almost nothing from the course material is in English, which was shocking to me
Maybe you don't see it? What about shell, cloud, webservice, etc. Is there something about router, switch, smartphone, microservice, AI? Ai is a pretty funny case, as there is a German term for it (KI), but in the new hype now, it's barely used at all, even in academics.
> So despite the new clothing, Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath
It's not conservative to have your own culture and history.