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I work with French programmers, so that opens an entire other can of worms. Colon becomes "two points" and semi-colon becomes "point comma".
Of course, that may be cause it's exactly the same in my native italian.
Around ten years ago I worked as an instructor teaching people programming here in Sweden. My company decided I did such a good job they would send me over to their parent company in the UK to teach some classes there. I knew the material by heart so, no problem, I thought. I quickly discovered, right in front of the class at the white board with marker in hand, with my first " { " written, that being fluent in Engli…
Swedish also has a funny name for the @-sign, named after the trunk of an elephant. In fact, quite a few languages do. Here's a short sample from the Wikipedia article: In Swedish and Danish the sign is known as the "snabel a" (literally trunk a), owning to the resemblance between the sign and the trunk of an elephant. In Norwegian the term most commonly used is "krøllalfa" (literally: curled alpha). In Greek the sig…
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Swedish also has a funny name for the @-sign, named after the trunk of an elephant. In fact, quite a few languages do. Here's a short sample from the Wikipedia article: In Swedish and Danish the sign is known as the "snabel a" (literally trunk a), owning to the resemblance between the sign and the trunk of an elephant. In Norwegian the term most commonly used is "krøllalfa" (literally: curled alpha). In Greek the sig…
And in the Netherlands, we call it a ape's tail (we use 'ape' both for monkeys and ape's.)
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And in the Netherlands, we call it a ape's tail (we use 'ape' both for monkeys and ape's.)
In Poland it's very often simply called "ape" (often giving e-mail addresses), before I often heard "elephant's ear".
I work with French programmers, so that opens an entire other can of worms. Colon becomes "two points" and semi-colon becomes "point comma".
Being French, I still find these names way better (as in clearer and more understandable for a foreigner) than the English ones. Why is ":" called a "colon"? That makes no sense!
` as backtick is rare? I thought it was the standard.