Re: Translating English Terminology to Dutch

The biggest problem with translating DB specific terms is that often the English term is the only one that is being used widely. Take for instance SQL. It would translate to something like GVT in Dutch. Nobody would understand what you are talking about.

Igor Kalders wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am writing a thesis on MetaSQL, but I'm actually writing it in Dutch. The
> only problem I constantly bump into is translating keywords from English to
> Dutch. I'm not aware of any good online dictionary able to solve my
> DB-specific requests. I was also not sure wether to post this question on
> this newsgroup, but I couldn't come up with anything better. So if anyone
> knows a good source for that kind of translations, or perhaps, knows what
> the official Dutch term for 'Augmented Schema' is :) , feel free to reply.
> If I'm just bugging you, feel free to ignore.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Grimz

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Anton Versteeg
DB2 Specialist
IBM Netherlands