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.
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#16In Faroese it is “lús” (lice) which refers to a “villa” (mistake) or “brek” (defect) in software, according to the dictionary. I would personally refer to a bug as “villa” or “feilur” which is the same as the Danish word “fejl”.
To debug is to “kemba” (comb), and debugger “kembari” (comber, if that is a word, someone who combs).
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#17Chinese: 程序错误 (程序=program, 错误=error) is used for the generic sort of software bug. If the bug is a security hole, then it's instead called 漏洞 (leak). Though sometimes the English word "bug" is used, see for example https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%8B%E5%BA%8F%E9%94%99%E8... which uses a mix of the two terms. Sometimes it's mistakenly capitalized as BUG, see for example https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E8%BD%AF%E4%BB…
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#18In 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.
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#19Chinese: 程序错误 (程序=program, 错误=error) is used for the generic sort of software bug. If the bug is a security hole, then it's instead called 漏洞 (leak). Though sometimes the English word "bug" is used, see for example https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%8B%E5%BA%8F%E9%94%99%E8... which uses a mix of the two terms. Sometimes it's mistakenly capitalized as BUG, see for example https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E8%BD%AF%E4%BB…
Can we have some Pīnyīn, please?
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#20Spanish. South America.