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> "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German). Just a linguistic note: German and English are almost exactly the same
by DiogenesKynikos 4y ago
> "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German).
Just a linguistic note: German and English are almost exactly the same in how they make large compound words. The only difference is that when you write English, you put spaces between the different words that make up the compound, but when you write German, you leave out the spaces. But when spoken, they're exactly the same.
Germans could theoretically change their orthographic rules to write, "Schwangerschafts Konflikt Beratung," but they don't.
- zaroth 4y agoThanks for explaining this! So which is more likely, Germans adding proper whitespace in their written language, or Germans codifying legal abortion before 12 weeks?
- kayyay 4y agoWell, now that the Conservative parties are in the opposition they did do away with 218a, there's hope 219 will follow at some point
- swores 4y agoI think we should switch to their style instead https://youtube.com/watch?v=glrIzdHWhgw https://youtube.com/watch?v=glrIzdHWhgw
- throwaway894345 4y agoHonestly I often put dashes between words that should be grouped together when the parsing might otherwise be ambiguous. It's definitely not a perfect solution (no support for arbitrary nesting, not "standard" English), but it's a bit better for parsing than the German solution insofar as the delimiter isn't an empty string. :)
- smsm42 4y agoI get why, Arbeiterunfallverischerungsgesetz sounds much better than the boring "worker's compensation law".