The Ugly American Programmer

What really ticks my off is people who cannot even speak their native language. Germans have really let themselves go. You’ll hear biologists everywhere speak of DNA (even when conversing/writing in German). Only ten years ago, nobody would have thought of abbreviating “Desoxyribonukleinsäure” as D-N-A (instead, they used the perfectly sane “DNS”). It’s perfectly ridiculous and in my opinion, it betrays a very sloppy attitude (not only towards language, which is, to be fair, rather arbitrary). That said, languages exist to make ourselves understood. Why impose artificial, unnecessary limits? Using a language other than English in programming-related publications (that includes source code, obviously) only serves the confusion of languages.