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Swede here. Never felt hindered by Swedish but with very few exceptions domain-specific terms will be English words (resulting in beautiful Swenglish/svengelska
by Legogris 6y ago
Swede here. Never felt hindered by Swedish but with very few exceptions domain-specific terms will be English words (resulting in beautiful Swenglish/svengelska).
“Najs refactor, men kan du rebasa dina commits innan vi mergar till masterbranchen?”
(Written documentation, commit messages etc will always be in English though)
I saw your post on the same topic on Kodapor and I think it’s just a matter of you having had way more exposure in CS through English and therefore being more fluent in English in those contexts. There’s nothing in the Swedish language that would make it less powerful than English, as long as you’re willing to borrow vocabulary. The medical field has been doing this with latin for ages - loads of Latin words but nobody’s actually speaking Latin.
There are a few words that still feel natural to translate: Kompilator (compiler), kluster (cluster), minne (memory), binär (binary), etc. But for the most part it just feels forced and confusing to resist mixing in foreign words.
- sansnomme 6y agoEnglish is not that foreign though, it is also Germanic.