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Re:Telefunken Datenspeicher by Tainnor on Saturday March 16, 2024 @01:52PM (#39727947)
I don't think you understand how languages work. Nobody sat down and "decided" to use German words instead of English ones (maybe that's what happened with the Académie Française, but that's a different topic). Those German terms have been in use for decades.

Are you going to force UK speakers to say truck, fall and cookie, too?

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Re:Telefunken Datenspeicher by Rinzler89 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @04:20PM (#39729148)
>I don't think you understand how languages work.

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.

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Re:Telefunken Datenspeicher by Tainnor on Saturday March 16, 2024 @07:37PM (#39730431)
> I'm not talking about languages, I'm talking about the specific words of IT jargon which all originate from English.

"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.

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Re:Telefunken Datenspeicher by LAC-Tech on Saturday March 16, 2024 @05:41PM (#39729727)
Devils advocate, but I code using US spelling for variable names, and avoid using Imperial terms to US English speakers because if they can't wrap their minds around me being in the southern hemisphere and my summer being their winter, they won't be able to cope with "capsicum".
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Re:Telefunken Datenspeicher by miki123211 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @09:05PM (#39730933)
> Are you going to force UK speakers to say truck, fall and cookie, too?

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.

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