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 Anonymous said...

I've never ever seen or thought of "nachrichten server" as german word for news server. It's just the english one.

Server is used identically, whereas the german word "Nachrichten" refers more to breaking news as on CNN.

9:46 AM 

 Anonymous said...

Newsgroups
Italian - gruppi di discussione

News Server
Italian - servizio di notizie

Anyway in Italy usually we use the English version.

3:23 PM 

 Anonymous said...

As someone born and raised in french Canada, and working all day long in english, I end up using some words from both languages when talking to my co-workers.

Newsgroups: I use this word in both english and french.

News Server: I use "serveur de news" in french.

I also use Usenet in both french and english, and you will never catch me calling an email a "courriel" in french. That plain sucks!

11:45 PM 

 Anonymous said...

Isn't 'newsgroup' French for Bulletin Bord?

2:07 PM 

 Anonymous said...

In Danish we call it Nyhedsgrupper,
but most of the time we just say usenet.

4:01 AM 

 Anonymous said...

Nope, we call Bboards : Forums
Newsgroups stands for : "Groupe de News", which actually noone uses, because it's really much faster and more simple to say Newsgroups.

12:14 AM 

 Anonymous said...

I confirm, here in France we use either "newsgroups" or "groupes de discussion" but never "serveur de nouvelles". We're simply using "serveur de news".

6:43 AM 

 Anonymous said...

Here in the Netherlands I often hear just "newsserver" for, well, newsserver :)

There aren't many people who call it a "nieuwsserver", although that's the correct Dutch word for it.

Strange thing, though, that we call the newsgroup themselves by the Dutch word for them - "nieuwsgroepen".

Ah well... languages are quite dynamic and this is some proof of it :)

2:14 PM 

 Anonymous said...

Here in the Netherlands we barely use "nieuwsserver" for newsserver, we just use the English word. As with many computer terms, we just use the English word.

On the other side, newsgroups are almost always referred to as such - no translation. Probably because newsserver sounds almost Dutch, whereas the word newsgroups doesn't.

2:18 PM 

 Anonymous said...

Giganews needs help. I've been begging like a dog for 2 days just to get them so send me the user id and password to get with the account I paid for. Not a single response. Now I have to go thru the hassle of cancelling the charge and spending the rest of my life telling people how bad their customer service is.

1:24 PM 

 Giganews said...

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1:33 PM 

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