<story><title>Telefunken Datenspeicher</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/29676/what-is-this-large-device-labelled-telefunken-datenspeicher-and-how-does-it-wo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s still mostly the same in Germany today.&lt;p&gt;My cousin in Germany is doing a 1-year long IT schooling course (going from how a PC works, how Win and Linux work, Shell&amp;#x2F;PS scripting to python and AWS) and the course material has all the technical terms in German: &amp;quot;Rechner&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Speicher&amp;quot;, Ordner&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Betriebssystem&amp;quot;, instead of Computer, Memory, Folder, Operating system.&lt;p&gt;Almost nothing from the course material is in English, which was shocking to me as if you&amp;#x27;re searching online for solutions to issues or learning new concepts, you can&amp;#x27;t expect in your career to only Google things in German and find answers in German, but you&amp;#x27;ll have to know to use everything in English to broader your search and knowledge base, so forcing all the candidates and materials in German feels like an unnecessary crippling.&lt;p&gt;So despite the new clothing, Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath, pretending to be cool and modern. &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;How do you do fellow Kinder?&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;[1]&lt;p&gt;My 0.02 Eurocents&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;fiOMbqPHFwo?si=CIbdpdTXnkQ6MyJs&amp;amp;t=28&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;fiOMbqPHFwo?si=CIbdpdTXnkQ6MyJs&amp;amp;t=28&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so cool to see machines from an age when Germans still referred to technical things using their native language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tainnor</author><text>&amp;quot;Rechner&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Computer&amp;quot; are interchangeable and probably used equally frequently, as are &amp;quot;Hauptspeicher&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;RAM&amp;quot;, etc. Some words do seem to be mainly referred to by their German names (&amp;quot;Betriebssystem&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Datenbank&amp;quot;), while for many others, I&amp;#x27;m not aware of any German equivalent in common usage (&amp;quot;event sourcing&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;operations&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;pull&amp;#x2F;merge request&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;branch&amp;quot;, ...).&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, in university courses I&amp;#x27;ve seen German names for things I had only ever heard the English term of. I suspect almost nobody in the industry actually uses these German terms.&lt;p&gt;So, not everything is in German. I guess it&amp;#x27;s probably mostly the stuff that&amp;#x27;s been around a long time that has acquired a German name, but newer tech is typically referred to by English terminology.&lt;p&gt;I also agree with my sibling commentor that dismissing a culture because they don&amp;#x27;t exclusively use English terminology is silly. The German language certainly didn&amp;#x27;t stop Niklaus Wirth (who was from Switzerland and spoke German) from winning the Turing Award.</text></comment>
<story><title>Telefunken Datenspeicher</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/29676/what-is-this-large-device-labelled-telefunken-datenspeicher-and-how-does-it-wo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s still mostly the same in Germany today.&lt;p&gt;My cousin in Germany is doing a 1-year long IT schooling course (going from how a PC works, how Win and Linux work, Shell&amp;#x2F;PS scripting to python and AWS) and the course material has all the technical terms in German: &amp;quot;Rechner&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Speicher&amp;quot;, Ordner&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Betriebssystem&amp;quot;, instead of Computer, Memory, Folder, Operating system.&lt;p&gt;Almost nothing from the course material is in English, which was shocking to me as if you&amp;#x27;re searching online for solutions to issues or learning new concepts, you can&amp;#x27;t expect in your career to only Google things in German and find answers in German, but you&amp;#x27;ll have to know to use everything in English to broader your search and knowledge base, so forcing all the candidates and materials in German feels like an unnecessary crippling.&lt;p&gt;So despite the new clothing, Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath, pretending to be cool and modern. &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;How do you do fellow Kinder?&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;[1]&lt;p&gt;My 0.02 Eurocents&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;fiOMbqPHFwo?si=CIbdpdTXnkQ6MyJs&amp;amp;t=28&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;fiOMbqPHFwo?si=CIbdpdTXnkQ6MyJs&amp;amp;t=28&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so cool to see machines from an age when Germans still referred to technical things using their native language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kwpolska</author><text>I have a degree in CS, from a Polish university, and virtually all the course material was in Polish. That&amp;#x27;s a legal requirement, since I signed up for a degree taught in Polish, and I can&amp;#x27;t be expected to speak English, even though I would be useless in real life if I didn&amp;#x27;t. An English version would be available, but it would probably be painful, considering how bad some of the teachers are at short phrases, let alone a semester&amp;#x27;s worth of lectures.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, all my direct coworkers speak Polish, and that&amp;#x27;s the language we use to talk about technical matters. We do use English words randomly, and our code (comments and variables) and docs are in English, but nobody is complaining about people using their native language.</text></comment>