On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:37:12PM +0200, Emiliano wrote:
> 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.
:-))) Oh, they succeded in Russia!
> "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!
Drukker is understandable because in Belarussian it will be 'Drukarka' :-)
It's from long aged 'to print books' ("drukavac'").
> 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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