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As an American moving back there from Switzerland and scared to lose the German I know, maybe this is exactly what I need. Though I will say that “benutze” is

As an American moving back there from Switzerland and scared to lose the German I know, maybe this is exactly what I need. Though I will say that “benutze” is much longer than “use” haha. Would be hilarious to make a Swiss German version. Edit: the words are abbreviated which makes it that much harder for a non native German speaker. Seems like German is much longer on average. That’s one plus of English over German. I do wish more languages had capitalized nouns though

ithkuil 2y ago
Language vocabulary and syntax design has been influenced by how "fit" the terms are for use. Fitness includes the length. Now it's true that English is particularly full of short terms. But I wonder how a programming language would have evolved if one had chosen German (or another) language from the get go instead of having a translation
- eru 2y ago
  You could have a look at Plankalkül for a very early example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
  - ithkuil 2y ago
    unfortunately Plankalkül seems to only have single letter keywords
eru 2y ago
> Though I will say that “benutze” is much longer than “use” haha. I would have probably just gone with 'nutze' instead.