this is correct. i'm a romanian and both schools and government use the octet. on the other hand private enterprise has long used the bit/byte and "octet" is no

this is correct. i'm a romanian and both schools and government use the octet. on the other hand private enterprise has long used the bit/byte and "octet" is nowadays mostly confusing people. but it goes a bit deeper than that and it's mostly due to french influences: language is considered at the heart of national identity [0]. this has been detrimental to developing a modern language. one of the effects is actually the slow death of languages that can't adapt to their surroundings. instead we get english words translated in a crude manner to romanian or french. words that no one uses as the english/american versions are not only more popular, but also much more flexible. the french (romanians and others) are highly protective of their language, which is why they're losing the language battles. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/23/language-french-identity https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/23/langua...