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The Awful German Language (1880)

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185 points nalinidash | 1 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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hwj ◴[16 May 25 13:44 UTC] No.44005478[source]▶
We're exactly in the same position (FinTech):

Translating German into English resulted in code being understood neither by Germans nor by Englishmans :-)

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1. bee_rider ◴[16 May 25 17:57 UTC] No.44008178[source]▶
Fintech, hmm, can Linus or the Nokia folks understand your code?