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My case: I'm from Spain and I was 6 years old with a Commodore VIC-20: just "setup" papers were translated, the BASIC manual was in English, so you had to read
by juangacovas 8y ago
My case: I'm from Spain and I was 6 years old with a Commodore VIC-20: just "setup" papers were translated, the BASIC manual was in English, so you had to read English without really knowing the language. Those days I was years away of English classes from the National Education System.
I would say that we "latinos", including Italians, tend to "latinize" words like "ping", in my case "pingear" (to ping) in Spanish.
- lou1306 8y agoYes! We do it all the time, even more often than necessary. Like, you could say "Set foo to 0" as "Setta foo a zero" and IT people will understand you, although "settare" is not even a verb (the correct translation would be "impostare")
- tigershark 8y agoSettare is an Italian verb: https://www.garzantilinguistica.it/ricerca/?q=settare https://www.garzantilinguistica.it/ricerca/?q=settare http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/settare/ http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/settare/ It has been derived from the equivalent English verb, but nowadays it is a real Italian world. “Mouse” is another word borrowed from English while in Spanish for example it’s called “Raton”. In Italian you will never find anyone calling it “Topo”.
- serpix 8y agothe more senior IT people will also question why you are mutating variables :)