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187 points nalinidash | 2 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | source

1. jancsika ◴[16 May 25 18:41 UTC] No.44008607[source]▶

I feel like German compound nouns are just begging for ternary conditionals:

Was ist das für ein Raum?

Das ist mein Schläfrig?schlaf:wohnzimmer.

2. lucb1e ◴[16 May 25 20:45 UTC] No.44009672[source]▶

Writing is nothing but a translation of speech though. I'm afraid you'd need to have a leading example in speech that you want to encode before this has a chance of catching on even in a subculture :(

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