Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > Hey, I blame paralink. Oh, you didn't really think I took a crash-course
> > Russian did you ;)?
>
> I didn't, Dutch sounds so attractable that I'd rather start to learn it :-)
> One thing is stoping me from doing that: you have no nationalized
> terminology for CS and that's not interesting. :-))
:< You just had to drag that memory back up, didn't you? We actually do
have dutch terminology for CS. The problem (nay, good fortune) is that
nobody actually uses it and if sometimes commercials do use these
terms it takes time to figure out wtf they are talking about. They
tried to introduce them in college too but got booed out.
"Klavier? That could be... naah, wouldn't be a keyboard? And what's a
'slappe schijf drijver'[0]? Or a 'drukker[1]'? Ow, my poor aching head!
For those that have the misfortune to understand these terms: I'm not
making these up.
Emile
[0] which translates back to 'thing that floats flacid disks'
or words to that effect. That's the mental image you'd get,
anyway.
[1] poo-poo maker? snap-fastener? No? A printer?! Really?
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