• virku@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Uh. Norwegian chiming in. That translation is really bad. I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round. For graduate I would translate it to fullført (completed).

    Also datafag may be used some places i suspect, but I haven’t seen it used in higher education. Maybe it was used earlier. But now the terms datateknikk or informatikk are the most common. I have a degree named dataingeniør myself.

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      6 days ago

      ‘Oh boy, I can’t wait for that new indie action film “Fullført Informatikk” to release!’

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      11 days ago

      I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round.

      Turns out, neither would Google translate

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        11 days ago

        The grammar is bad as well. The of is superimposed in the translation. It should have been slutten/enden av datafag to be correct Norwegian. But by then the joke is fully gone.

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      11 days ago

      Informatikk sounds pretty nuts, too

      edit: I learned a new word today

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          11 days ago

          Oh gotcha. Still, there is something about the double k at the end that gives it some edge (a third k would have the opposite effect, to be clear)

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            11 days ago

            I guess. Any word ending with ics ends with ikk in Norwegian basically. Ceramics - keramikk, electronics - elektronikk, etc.