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English isn‘t my native language, but the language I am most comfortable having technical conversations in. I struggle to express computer science topics in my
by Hendrikto 3y ago
English isn‘t my native language, but the language I am most comfortable having technical conversations in. I struggle to express computer science topics in my first language.
I talked to many who share that sentiment. Computer science, programming languages, documentation, and discussion forums tend to be anglocentric. I learned in English, and most technical terms are English.
A loop is a loop. There is a word for it in my native language, but it sounds very weird to me to use it in a technical context. Almost nobody uses the native term. Everybody just says "loop".
There are even many words that do not really have a translation. There isn‘t a good translation for "release" in German, when used as a noun.
- Izkata 3y agoExample in a totally different context: There's lots of Go terms that are Japanese, and don't have an English word. They just are that word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms