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The Awful German Language (1880)

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187 points nalinidash | 3 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.725s | source
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rawbert ◴[16 May 25 06:21 UTC] 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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veltas ◴[16 May 25 07:05 UTC] No.44002534[source]▶
Have to think of a translation for an EinfacheBeansFabrikBewusstAspektInstanzFabrik
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hoseyor ◴[16 May 25 08:42 UTC] No.44003106[source]▶
What is “Simple Beans Factory Aware Aspect Instance Factory” supposed to actually mean?

That does not seem like a concept at all, let alone an actual German word. “Beans” is not even German, there is no German word spelled “Beans”.

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1. oaiey ◴[16 May 25 09:31 UTC] No.44003391[source]▶
You have not programmed Java with J2EE / Jakarta EE right?

(me neither but that is the kind of factories you build there ... at least in folklore)

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2. amiga386 ◴[16 May 25 09:40 UTC] No.44003435[source]▶
Example: https://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/serve...
3. watashiato ◴[16 May 25 12:11 UTC] No.44004466[source]▶
https://web.archive.org/web/20170629103902/http://www.bash.o...