I realized today that "bug" is a pretty idiomatic term. Are there parallels in other languages? How do you refer to a software bug in your native language?
Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?
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Re: Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?
#2In many of them it's still "bug". Just like computer is still computer or some version thereof. A lot of newer and technical words are copied or transcribed from English instead of being translated.
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#3Brazilian Portuguese: mostly is called "boogie", our garbled pronounciation for bug.
Sometimes is called "erro" (error) or "defeito" (defect).
Re: Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?
#4es-ar: "bug" we usually mix technical words in English in the middle of sentences in Spanish. The correct word in Spanish is "error" (the phonetics is something like "eh-rrohr"), but it's a generic word for errors, not only software bugs.
My guess is that the other countries in America that speak Spanish use this mix, but in Spain they may use the translated version.
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#5I've seen mostly ⟨bug⟩ in both Italian and Portuguese. Uncommonly ⟨erro de programação⟩ (PT) / ⟨errore di programmazione⟩ (IT).
I pronounce it ['bu.ge] in both languages, although the pronunciation might vary quite a bit in Portuguese; the last vowel can be [e ɪ i ə] or non-existent, depending on the dialect. It's just epenthetic, given neither language likes hard codas.
Re: Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?
#6In Hebrew it's mostly bug (באג).
However there is an official translation "teqel" (תקל). It is a derivative of a root that means "to stumble". It suggests a resolvable setback more than an "error".
Re: Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?
#7Here is Greece we just call them bugs (we use the English word, not any transitions).
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#8I'm not a fluent German speaker, but my amateur sense is that word forms of "fault", "mistake", "failure" are used in German instead, e.g. fehl and Software-Fehler.
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#9In Russian, it’s the same word, transliterated as “баг". And the same is true for “feature”: it’s also transliterated directly to “фича".
Re: Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?
#10In Japanese you can use the word "enbug", as an antonym for "debug".