This seems to be a periodic theme. Back in the 90s I read an article about Linux programming words becoming Germanized. E.g., grep is a key search program, and so in English it becomes the verb 'to grep' and in German 'greppen,' (or something like that) I believe. Language is fun.
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This seems to be a periodic theme. Back in the 90s I read an article about Linux programming words becoming Germanized. E.g., grep is a key search program, and so in English it becomes the verb 'to grep' and in German 'greppen,' (or something like that) I believe. Language is fun.
Wow, that's really cool--and blogworthy :D
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