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The Awful German Language (1880)

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rawbert ◴[] No.44002326[source]
As a developer working in a German company the question of translating some domain language items into English comes up here and there. Mostly we fail because the German compound words are so f*** precise that we are unable to find short matching English translations...unfortunately our non-native devs have to learn complex words they can't barely pronounce :D

Most of the time we try to use English for technical identifiers and German for business langugage, leading to lets say "interesting" code, but it works for us.

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adrianmonk ◴[] No.44002678[source]
> * English for technical identifiers and German for business langugage, leading to lets say "interesting" code*

So it's code-switching code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

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1. bahmboo ◴[] No.44003182[source]
Good reference to a higher level concept. Your linked article was a fun jumping off point.