On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> wrote:

For example, in Portugal and African Portuguese speaking countries, we rather mix English technical terms with Portuguese even when a translation does exist, whereas in Brazil they tend to choose other words.

My experience leaving in Germany tells me that you only hear people using German official terms in very traditional (aka old) companies, the new generations mix English technical terms with German.

I remember having friends coming from North Africa and speaking among themselves in Arabic, interspersed with French words, enough for me to get a global feeling of what was being said. Most interesting was that mathematical terms (that was during my studies) were all in French.

We are all adaptive beasts.