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There is no subtle difference (source: native german speaker.), however: "nich" might be either a typo by JdeBP, or a pronunciation respelling of a badly (dial
by Ao7bei3s 11y ago
There is no subtle difference (source: native german speaker.), however:
"nich" might be either a typo by JdeBP, or a pronunciation respelling of a badly (dialectally) pronounced "nicht" (though then I'd also have expected "is" instead of "ist"), but either way it makes no semantic difference...
...so JdeBP probably meant the language. However the HN article title didn't say "says" but "asserts", which makes it independent of the language.
- avar 11y agoIt looks like the headline technically violates the HN guidelines[1], unless we consider "languages that are not English" to be "misleading or linkbait" :) What might be getting lost in translation here is that in English language news it's customary to use "says" when the quote is actually a translation, without noting that it is. See e.g. news articles about world leaders ("Putin says Y") that don't note that he actually said X in Russian, it was just translated into Y. Now I'm curious, is it customary to note that such quotes are translated in German language news? 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Ao7bei3s 11y ago> is it customary to note that such quotes are translated in German language news? No. (But that's ok, because it's unsurprising that foreign politicians don't speak in german.) (Additions and deletions are often marked with [foo] and [...], just as in english news.)