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[–] virku@lemmy.world 133 points 1 month ago (16 children)

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.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Informatikk sounds pretty nuts, too

edit: I learned a new word today

[–] virku@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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)

[–] virku@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

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