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Interestingly Slovak and Czech have no problems whatsoever to use native Slavic words for technical terms, e.g. súbor for file (literally a collection of data,
by andrewshadura 7y ago
Interestingly Slovak and Czech have no problems whatsoever to use native Slavic words for technical terms, e.g. súbor for file (literally a collection of data, think сбор/собор in Russian), snímač for sensor (lit. taking off something, similar to the Russian съёмник), obrazovka for screen (place for images; compare to the Russian образ (image) and экран (screen, from the French écran)). There are more but I can't think of any right now :)
- aasasd 7y agoNot sure how ‘súbor’ is properly pronounced, but it seems Russian also has a computer-related connotation for it: https://i.imgur.com/JdgltUj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/JdgltUj.jpg Including my favorite variant, the “Russian-English Computer Learning Set”: http://sannata.org/articles/subor.shtml http://sannata.org/articles/subor.shtml Though the manufacturer appears to be wholly Chinese.
- gdy 7y agoIt is very typical for Russians that we often feel awkward using old words in a new meaning to denote new concepts. Somehow it feels silly and imprecise, and we prefer to borrow the word from the language where a concept originated. At the same time, in colloquial language we happen to replace English words with unrelated but similarly sounding Russian words. For example, saying мыло (soap) instead of 'mail' or 'поймать лося' (catch a moose) for activated stop loss order.