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Sorry for my bad English traceroute66... I came across BR during my studies as a typographic designer. There was a language problem there. That's why I realiz
by renato_casutt 5y ago
Sorry for my bad English traceroute66...
I came across BR during my studies as a typographic designer.
There was a language problem there.
That's why I realized that reading and listening are completely different.
You can understand a language by listening to it.
But reading the same language does not mean that you can understand it.
- traceroute66 5y agoNo problem, but the second half of my question was genuine. I can't imagine this working too well with German words ? e.g. how much of Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung, Lebensabschnittpartner or Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän would you need to highlight ? I don't speak German, but surely with compound words, your concept doesn't work that well ?
- insta_anon 5y agoSlightly off-topic - while I know that there are these lists of “crazy long German words” to make fun of each one of your examples besides the “Donau..” I actually used normally in conversations in the past. Even just a couple days ago I came across “Personalisierungsinfrastrukturkomponente“ [0] in a news article, so it is not just a rumor that Germans like long-ass words :) [0] Apparently these are the devices used by the government to verify passports and / or fingerprints of refugees.
- andai 5y agoFor languages with compound words it looks like you'd need to parse out the sub-words and bold the first few letters of each one. That's doable but now you need language-specific dictionary files etc.