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In the company where I worked there was an old telnet-like technology called "green screen". People would say "have you checked if this feature works in Greensc
by ajuc 4y ago
In the company where I worked there was an old telnet-like technology called "green screen". People would say "have you checked if this feature works in Greenscreen", or "is the price calculated same as in Greenscreen".
The Greenscreen - of course - is actually blue :).
BTW non-English-speaking teams have a slight advantage here. Technical terms and proper nouns in English are used in English, while everything else (for example - referring to a screen that's actually green) is done in our native language, so there's no misunderstanding.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoWorks great for Korean speakers, who don't really distinguish green and blue like English speakers do. > In many languages, the colors described in English as "blue" and "green" are colexified, i.e. expressed using a single cover term. To describe this English lexical gap, linguists use the portmanteau word grue, from green and blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_lang...
- silvestrov 4y agoAlso works well when the GreenScreen is a telnet window in Windows.
- ajuc 4y agoInteresting, so that's where the name comes from. We're using a different client now tho :)