That and the fact that there wasn't even an attempt to standardize IT jargon in Dutch after the early eighties, magazines and paper don't use it and have no guidelines to tap.
That's not true.
CEH or its predecessor (no
not the certified hackers, but a kind of platform for technology), initiated by the ministry of economic affairs, raised a work-group to address that issue in about 1997.
It never came to full fruition. Reason: the members from the private sector and the academics weren't very interested and the civil servants were not in any way qualified.
Much like it is now... <Sigh> I must have some docs lying around, because it was in my PerfectView days. I know for sure Vincent Evers and Peter Backer gave a lot of feedback then.
Half of what I know about user interfaces (and internationalization) was taught to me by Peter Backer. The other half based on books he recommended. Like "About Face" which also has some insightful texts about translations. (SO ON TOPIC)
So there was an(actually multiple: there was also a linguistic group involved from Leiden) effort that bled to death.
We should really pay more taxes if the government promises to spend it on in-house IT knowledge. (Honestly!)
But that would go on a balance sheet and doesn't look good (salary scales: is that per week or per day? No,it's per month.. No joke.I thought it was..
) , instead of on the current account where you can make third party hire conveniently disappear... And in effect pay market rates.(I know how, I am also a political scientist as you know)
[Edit] it was CEP, doh. I'm getting old...