Someone need to do research about the linguistics in programming. There are lots of developers in the world whose mother tongue is not English. Like me.
But we mostly communicate in English, the most of information we read is in English.
There are of course translated books and articles. Or (much less) information that was written in other languages.
When I was studying, those books used transliterated terms. We used such terms in our speech and I heard people from different countries also do the same.
As a result, I don't connect most of the words to their original meanings.
For example, I learnt how to pronounce ALTER after 5 years of using the command. I have understand what the stack is when my son was building and singing the song he learnt in pre-creche baby group.
Checkout is only git command for me.
I have get used to Push and Pull signs on the doors by building analogies from git.
Bug is just the way we call a mistake. I don't have a connection to the insects. The bug for me always has an author.
Programming is error-making and searching activity. But that's topic for the psychology of the programming.
I am sire that I am not the only one who uses software English. So hopefully there will be a study about it.
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