21–30 of 53 posts
es-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.
es-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.
So most of the time we just use the word bug, and it's a third of the syllable count.
Interestingly the word clicks a lot better with the other English use of "bug", which is to sneak a microphone into a room.
From a poetic angle, "pijak" means step (on). I don't know if that's the etymology, but it evokes the idea that "pepijat" is something with a lot of little steps and something you want to step on.
With a computer bug, you can't really step on it, but with a microphone bug you can.
To debug is "déboguer", which only means to debug (and not opening/removing the chestnut burr).
Alternatively, "défaut" is also used (defect). Sometimes the more general "erreur" (error) can be used.
However, the English word "bug" is getting used more and more (along with "débuguer", the French way to turn "to debug" into something usable in the language).
In 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".
In the USA we call them "features".
In Japanese it's バグ ("bagu"), "a fault or defect in a computer program". A funny slang term is バグる ("baguru") - it's an artificially constructed verb that means "to behave buggily", often used to describe when a game or software glitches.
In Japanese you can use the word "enbug", as an antonym for "debug".