High Voltage-Direct Current (HVDC)-transmission facility:
Hochspannung-(s)-gleichstrom-übertragungsanlage
!ich_iel@feddit.de hashad an ongoing meme conquest for memes facilitating the word Anlage, which either means facility or investment.
Warum ist das Fugen-S in Klammern? Es ist in diesem Fall nicht optional, da das vorausgehende Wort auf -ung endet.
Das was 9Bananas sagte, aber gibt es wirklich keine Worte, die auf -ung enden und kein -s- benötigen?
Guys honestly how can dyslexic people read these “words”
I would argue since that is a compound word it is actually much easier to read since you know how the parts are supposed to be spoken. If that makes sense 😅
Speaking as a German and a software developer: just because you can, does not mean you should.
Sometimes it is easier and better to not stuff words together and give readers a bad time than to write “Schiffsschraubeneichungsvorgabenverordnungsüberwacher”.
Schiffsschraubeneichungsvorgabenverordnungsüberwacher
From google translate: “Ship propeller calibration specification regulation supervisor”
German’s more extreme compound words seem like a good linguistic use case for CamelCase.
Sorry for replying this late, totally missed it but i like the analogy. But what would be the alternative? Creating a new word for every function?
P. S: Also SchiffsSchraubeenEichungsvorgabenVerordnungsÜberwachung is much more readable: That’s why sir Pascal mounted a camel and created PascalCase and camelCase! (reading all the other answers I am proud that we collectively came to the same conclusions that it should be PascalCase!)
Got another one for you: Mehrlagensichtfensterklotzbodenbeutel The bag some cookies come in.
Mehrlagensichtfensterklotzbodenbeutel
From google translate: “Multi-layer view window block bottom bag”
I don’t have an official diagnosis…just tendencies and I’m and english native speaker, but I didn’t have any problems with german monster words when i was learning german because they don’t really look similar enough plus when you’re reading you just kind of slow down on the big words you don’t know and figure them out or look them up. I found the german convention of capitalizing of all nouns really helpful too for reading. Yes, i realize i didn’t even capitalize everything i was supposed to in english 😁
There are no people with dyslexia in Germany. The Kaiser implemented these super long words as a eugenics project to eliminate them. It is a very dark part of our history only few people know about 😔
I’m in this picture, and I like it.
I thought it looked like some form of artilleri but apparently it’s just a Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggning (in swedish) so nothing to dangerous.
Hmmm… I wonder what the elevatorpitch for a Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggningservicelektriker is?
Hello! I’m the Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggningservicelektrikersanställningsansvarige. Would you like to work as a Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggn…"
No sorry, I have to go.
But it’s a amazing workplace; Steve, our Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggningservicelektrikersarbetsplatssäkerhetsavdelningsledare, will take…
SHUT UP!
[Screamd while dashing for the elevator exit]
Do you also want to use a language with so beautifuly convoluted words? Then Swedish ™ might be the language for you!
Here are some of the most common words to get you started:
- Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggningservicelektrikersanställningsansvarige – High Voltage DC Transmission Plant Service Electrician Hiring Manager
- Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggningservicelektrike – High Voltage DC Transmission Plant Service Electricians
- Högspänningslikströmsöverföringsanläggningservicelektrikersarbetsplatssäkerhetsavdelningsledar – High Voltage DC Transmission Plant Service Electrician Workplace Safety Department Manager
- Sjuk sköterska – sick care taker
- Sjuksköterska – nurse
- Sjuk sjuksköterska – sick nurse
- Sjuksjuksköterskasköterska – nurse that takes care of sick nurses
Whatever a Hockspannungstromübertragungsanlage is, I see it as enlightened that the Germans haven’t developed a simple word for it. Looks nasty.
*Hochspannungsgleichstromübertragungsanlage. But I have to admit defeat here, Hochspannungsgleichstromübertragung does get abbreviated as HGÜ, so almost nobody would write Hochspannungsgleichstromübertragungsanlage but rather HGÜ-Anlage, even if Hochspannungsgleichstromübertragungsanlage is a perfectly cromulent word.
High Voltage DC transmission system. So, not overly sinister, and probably needed.
Never thought about how many ways you can translate Anlage.
You missed the gleich.
High voltage direct current “transfer” device.
Or simply a transformer.
But what’s being missed is the fact that all German speakers will have a much better idea of what it is.
But transformer? Is it a giant robot? A car? Something that makes a giant robot into a car? Something entirely different?
