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However a lot of CS specific English terms are used and adapted to fit German grammar.
Example:
Committest du in den Master oder hast du einen neuen Branch angelegt? (Are you comitting into the master branch or did you create a new one)
I can recall in 1998 I was studying in Germany, taking a semester break from my CS studies. For the fun of it, I checked out the books being used by the CS program - all the textbooks were in English, and I then learned that in that program, most of the classes themselves were conducted in English as well. I know since then that English has become common in courses in many universities in Germany, but at the time it…
Generally I would say you discuss CS with other Germans in German. You just treat it like any other professional terminology like medical jargon or Biology.
Fun fact: the professor taught the whole lecture in German but wrote definitions in English on the board (while simultaneously speaking German).
I often use English CS terms prefixed/suffixed for Russian inflection embedded in a grammatically correct Russian sentence. (Russian is very flexible at adopting foreign roots within in its grammatical framework.) There are "official" Russian translations of most CS terminology, but they often feel too long, too formal for casual conversation, or sometimes even too ambiguous.
English loanwords in Korean are Korean words, not English words. They get Korean affixes. For example, methods are called 메소드 in Korean, but only as a programming term. Methods are otherwise translated as 방법. Therefore, word "method" in English and word "메소드" in Korean are completely different words, even if they share the origin and pronunciation. English word have normal non-programming meaning, Korean word does not.
I'm Flemish, so I speak Dutch. Since it's a small language, at university, most advanced courses used English (or French) books. There are a lot of concepts I cannot even start to explain in Dutch. I just don't have the vocabulary. I also was really shocked to learn later that there are programmers who don't speak English: I once interviewed a French developer who didn't know any English. He explained me that all his…
Why are you shocked? In fact I am shocked you are shocked.
Now I am shocked that you are shocked that s/he is shocked.
Yes, I talk (almost) exclusively German to my co workers / friends etc. However a lot of CS specific English terms are used and adapted to fit German grammar. Example: Committest du in den Master oder hast du einen neuen Branch angelegt? (Are you comitting into the master branch or did you create a new one)
So I try to do in English and end up speaking Denglish instead. :). A personal failing of course, but amusing.
Heh, this is fun. I learned a lot about functional programming while studying in Germany, so my first exposure to a lot of words was German. But they are mostly small adaptations of the English terms (monad == die Monade) anyway. Fun fact: the professor taught the whole lecture in German but wrote definitions in English on the board (while simultaneously speaking German).
Compare that to newer concepts like distributed computing, HTML, etc. ⇨ Using English terminology
Yes, I talk (almost) exclusively German to my co workers / friends etc. However a lot of CS specific English terms are used and adapted to fit German grammar. Example: Committest du in den Master oder hast du einen neuen Branch angelegt? (Are you comitting into the master branch or did you create a new one)
Yes, I talk (almost) exclusively German to my co workers / friends etc. However a lot of CS specific English terms are used and adapted to fit German grammar. Example: Committest du in den Master oder hast du einen neuen Branch angelegt? (Are you comitting into the master branch or did you create a new one)
Nice to see I can even practice German in HN.
* Needless to say, excuse my (possibly) horrible German.
Yes, I talk (almost) exclusively German to my co workers / friends etc. However a lot of CS specific English terms are used and adapted to fit German grammar. Example: Committest du in den Master oder hast du einen neuen Branch angelegt? (Are you comitting into the master branch or did you create a new one)
I’m curious as to why master and branch are borrowed rather than translated. Those seem straightforward enough to translate. But then again, I don’t speak German and I’m not a linguist.
When MDN shows me content in German the first thing I do is switch to English to lower the cognitive load.
I can just speak for myself, but jumping back and forth between two languages is adding unnecessary cognitive load.
I also never ever heard someone talk about the "Meisterzweig" in a Git repository.