I noticed something odd going on when I posted that...probably caused by some BB code written in Finnish!kaisellgren wrote:Something wierd happened. You made three postscalifdon wrote:I can certainly understand the motivation to program in your native language.
By the way, I have never heard of the English word "obscuration", but this usually called "obfuscation". Today's English lesson!
Btw, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Obscuration
I almost looked up that word, but I can tell you, both as a native English speaker and as a career editor, teacher and technical writer, that it is not in common usage. Obfuscation is the term that is normally used for this technique.
In English we have some quite funny usages, as I'm sure is true of most languages. The word 'obfuscation' is not a commonly used word outside of computer security discussions, and another proper, but rarely used word is 'eschew', meaning to refrain from. There's a famous bumper sticker that says, "Eschew Obfuscation".