Re: Usage of Interfaces with Ada 95

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2003-09-29, Georg Bauhaus <georg@strudel.futureapps.de> wrote:
>
> For example, every other "new computer word" here (in Germany) has
> been coined out of helpless (and probalby thoughtless) ignorance (no
> rebuke intended), being pressed for a word.  There is "gedownloadet"
> which is there because people haven't bothered to think about what
> "download" means, or even just look it up in an older computer
> dictionary. If you know that "geladen" is a perfect match for
> "loaded", why not use "geladen", as has been done until a few years
> ago?

I see the same in Norwegian: downloadet (=downloaded) attachment, savet
(=saved) In stead of: Lastet ned, vedlegg and lagret. However there seem
to be more and more using the Norwegian words and I think it has to do
with that more and more people have Norwegian in they desktop OS. I mean
in the old days everything was English and in order to explain to
somebody what to do you had to use English words so he/she would find
the correct menus. Now when you have the menus in Norwegian one use the
Norwegian names.

Preben