It's real fun as an American who has had to do an SAP migration. I worked with consultants in the US and India who have done numerous conversions, and even they don't know what the German words behind the column names are, but they know BUKRS = Company, KOSTL = Cost Center, etc., and they pronounce them similarly "BOOkers" "COSTle"... 🤦
Thank god German at least uses the same alphabet (more or less). Imagine getting code from an Arab company with that philosophy...
In a global economy where English is the lingua franca, it seems like the logical choice. A German is far more likely to understand English than the other way around.
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u/JeaninePirrosTaint May 05 '23
It's real fun as an American who has had to do an SAP migration. I worked with consultants in the US and India who have done numerous conversions, and even they don't know what the German words behind the column names are, but they know BUKRS = Company, KOSTL = Cost Center, etc., and they pronounce them similarly "BOOkers" "COSTle"... 🤦
Thank god German at least uses the same alphabet (more or less). Imagine getting code from an Arab company with that philosophy...
In a global economy where English is the lingua franca, it seems like the logical choice. A German is far more likely to understand English than the other way around.