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I'm German. Lived abroad for close to a decade although back in Germany for the past 4 now. Generally, I have no issue switching between German and English for
by mschild 2y ago
I'm German. Lived abroad for close to a decade although back in Germany for the past 4 now.
Generally, I have no issue switching between German and English for anything, be it movies, books, conversation, etc.
Coding is just something though that my German brain will refuse to do. It feels foreign and just downright weird. That's the best I can describe it. I even started learning to code in German. German is also one the languages that generally has a ton of resources translated and translated well. I just cannot do it though. Syntax and technical terms in German just turn my brain to mush.
- Timwi 2y agoSame here, though with one exception: things that are not usually written out in English words (operators and punctuation) still have German names to me. In my head I still say “Stern”, “Klammer zu”, etc. when reading code like “x = *y;” and error messages like “')' expected”. I read “==” as “gleich gleich” and “!=” as “nicht gleich”.