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Yes, french is very weird when it comes to English terms - and especially IT related ones. A computer is called "Ordinateur", Bytes are called "Octets" (and pr
by denysvitali 3y ago
Yes, french is very weird when it comes to English terms - and especially IT related ones.
A computer is called "Ordinateur", Bytes are called "Octets" (and prefixed with the usual kO, MO, ... IIRC). Bits are surprisingly called Bits
- anticensor 3y agoI would have expected "binaire" (short form of "numero binaire") instead of "bit".
- denysvitali 3y agoI'm not french, so I might be very wrong
- midoridensha 3y agoThe French are still mad that their language is no longer the Lingua Franca and has been supplanted by English, so they (or at least the academic types) really hate English borrow-words. Most other languages don't have this inferiority complex.