This one is more for the (surprisingly many) german folks here.

Explanation: Nobody would translate children to "Kinder" in the context of nodes in software.
The translation would be correct in the context of an ordinary family, but in software the translation of e.g. "Reply(s)" would be far more appropriate.

Is "3 Kitzen" any better?

@CoffeeNcode I often abolish the terms Parents/Children and rather speak of Predecessors and Successors -> Vorgänger/Nachfolger

@Alice yeah, and then I have to translate back such stuff to English to figure out what it's about - Microsoft translations are particularly notorious here.

@teilo What language is that even? Dutch?

@CoffeeNcode as @Alice said. Just be specific in german. The fact that something is a child of something, very often doesn't really matter.

@Alice I would even consider "Kindprozess" (child process) a weak translation, since "Unterprozess" (sub process) just feels way more natural.

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Fun fact for non-germans:
Guess where the word "Kindergarten" came from. 😉

I enjoy using the terms parent/children, orphan, clone, kill, destroy, etc. intentionally just to watch users squirm a little. I love their reactions, especially when they are explaining usage to newer users.

It's proper terminology, so it's not like I'm being unnecessarily morbid. 🙂

@LinusCDE It's a cross-linguistic play on words. Because we often say "kids" in English, when that literally means "baby goats." Which is what "kitzen" means in German.

@Alice Or "Kellerspeicher" for stack, which reeks of dusty 1970s Siemens manuals.

@Root Or masters and slaves..

@teilo Oh, that. I disn't think of that. I don't know when I last heard thst word. It wasn't even in my dictionary (dict.cc).

@Alice Never heard of that. Interesting.

@ruhe Isn't that linear?

@LinusCDE Probably. As @AlexDeLarge already pointed out. I guess I won't use such terms for e.g. heaps any longer

@LinusCDE You mean this one? https://www.dict.cc/?s=kitz

@teilo Yes. I searched for the plural of the word. Obviously stupid. 😮