Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  They are annoying even if you write in English. One such example is “library”.

  In Spanish, there are two words: “biblioteca” and “librería”.

  Library = biblioteca Book shop = librería

  When speaking about programming libraries, everyone says “librería” because it’s just easier to translate that way. But it just feels wrong every time.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    A funny one is Pizza Hut. “Hut” means “hat” in German. And since the Pizza Hut logo kind of looks like a hat many Germans believe that they gave it a German name in Germany. So they pronounce it in a German way and if they were to talk to an English speaker they might say Pizza Hat in an effort to translate.

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• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Although false friends can also be quite annoying.

  What does “false friends” mean?

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Words in two different languages that sound the same but don’t habe the same meaning. Real example from my last work: The German word for “topic” is “Thema”. So our programmers called the database field and variables “theme”.

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In a nutshell, words that look the same / similar but with different meanings in their respective languages, making it pretty confusing.

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like homonyms or something different?

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      • Lemmert@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        False friends usually aren’t homonyms since the word comes from different languages.

        To give an example: an English speaker might look at “rare auto” (Dutch) and might translate it to “rare car”. But “rare” means “weird” in Dutch. So rare is a false friend in this case

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What should you do if you inherit a project where they are already mixing languages because they just copy pasted from tutorials?

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exacerbate the problem by using your own style that’s not been used before.

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    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The only solution to having too many standards is always to add another new standard. /xkcd

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        TBF, USB C is an example of that approach actually working.

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    • loie@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      int main(){
        cout << "It's more compact this way and yeah I'll die on this hill";
      Return 0;}
      
      //see you even get to end lines in devious winky smilies who doesn't love that
      

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