Edwin Groothuis1d ago
Ivan Reese
Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"
Jun 19 at 2:50pmIvory for Mac
Show threadPeter3d ago

@spiralganglion

You could go with something like Eingabentastenumschalteverwechslungsangst, if you enjoy needlessly long compound words. Doesn't mention newline or messages, though. Sendetastenverunsicherung is a bit looser and closer to something someone would actually use.

Show threadEric Schultz1d ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion your language is bonkers 😂
Show threadcalcifer 1d ago
@wwahammy @peter_sc @spiralganglion my friend, have you seen English?!
Show threadEric Schultz1d ago
@calcifer @peter_sc @spiralganglion fair point 😂
Show threadmark1d ago
@wwahammy @peter_sc @spiralganglion the compound words are overly difficult to read, but listening to German is almost English with an accent. We borrowed so much of it, and added spaces
Show threadrefraction 18h ago
@wwahammy @peter_sc @spiralganglion it's really not. it's just a convention in English to put spaces in terms made up of several words and not have long compounds. but note that English does still have occasional compound words. German just does it more and longer. pretty much anything where you would use a hyphen too connect a term you'd likely just close the gap in German, but that's literally just a spelling convention that could easily change.
Show threadJan Boddez18h ago

@elexia @wwahammy @peter_sc @spiralganglion I’d even go as far as saying that in most Germanic languages compound nouns are written as a single word, and that English is the odd one out.

Although it’s disturbingly common to see random spaces inserted also in Dutch compound nouns (which I find tends to make them *more difficult* to read), a symptom of a broader phenomenon sometimes dubbed “the English disease.”

Show threadrefraction 18h ago
@janboddez @wwahammy @peter_sc @spiralganglion influence from other languages is common and who knows, maybe Dutch will become like English in that regard under its influence given enough time. nothing fundamentally wrong with either way of doing it.
Show threadOliver D. Reithmaier1d ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion SENDETASTENVERUNSICHERUNG!!!
Show threadFrederik Braun �1d ago
@odr_k4tana @peter_sc @spiralganglion I like! Sendetastenverunsicherung basically implies that you can get insured against accidental sending with a Sendetastenversicherung. Cc @skade :-)
Show threadAndrejBag1d ago
@freddy @odr_k4tana @peter_sc @spiralganglion @skade Erste Allgemeine Sendeverunsicherung
Show threaddasdom1d ago
@SholemAlejchem @freddy @odr_k4tana @peter_sc @spiralganglion @skade Oh Mann, genau den wollte ich auch machen.
Show threadTyberiusPrime1d ago
@odr_k4tana @peter_sc @spiralganglion erste allgemeine Sendetastenverunsicherung!
Show threadAndreas, DJ3EI, he/him1d ago

I'm a radio amateur. My transmitter is call my "Sender" in German. It has a button I press if I want it to transmit, which can be called "Sendetaste".

Just saying.

@odr_k4tana @peter_sc @spiralganglion

Show threadBeko Pharm1d ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion extra level: Hochstelltasteaktivierer.
Show threadPaul Lawitzki1d ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion "Sendetastenverunsicherung" gets my vote! Very appropriate and bureaucratically poetic 👍
Show threadsprouting Ske-lil-ton 🌱1d ago

@pLaw @peter_sc @spiralganglion as a native German speaker I also vote for it

(It translates to something like "uncertainty about the sending button", with "Verunsicherung" = "uncertainty" and "Sendetaste" = "sending button"/"button to send [a message]" (itself being a compound of "sende[n]" = "send/post" and "Taste" = "button"), a more free translation would be "being unsure about the button to send a message")

Show threadgoedelchen16h ago
@pLaw @peter_sc @spiralganglion It's not that we have an urge to make words as long as possible. I propose "Sendeangst"
Show threadPaul Lawitzki15h ago
@goedelchen @peter_sc @spiralganglion it's not about making extra long words, but rather striking a balance between (relative) brevity and specifity. And in my opinion "Sendetastenverunsicherung" describes the OPs feeling precisely enough while not taking up an entire paragraph. But that's just me ;)
Show threadF4GRX Sébastien1d ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion aaaand of course this is doable.
Show threadOtte Homan - remember Geordie1d ago
@peter_sc Eingabentastenumschaltungfunktionszweifel? @spiralganglion
Show threadgrambulf1d ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion I absolutely feel the Sendentastenverunsicherung
Show threadrhold20h ago

@peter_sc @spiralganglion a little bit shorter but more to the point: Zeilenabschlussunsicherheit - i think it captures this particular moment quiet well and it's a beautiful German word.

Literal translation for non Germans: the uncertainty (Unsicherheit) of how to terminate (Abschluss) a line (Zeile).

Show threadkevin ⁂ (he/him)18h ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion Sendetastenverunsicherung is such a beautiful word! :D
Show threadyeahyeahyens18h ago
@peter_sc @spiralganglion i didn't know it before but i've been sendetastenverunsichert the whole time
Show threadDave3d ago
@spiralganglion Sorry you’ll have to make this request by fax 📠 and the relevant staffer is on vacation until 2029
Show threadSzymon Nowicki1d ago

@daveliepmann @spiralganglion I'm the Polish immigrant who's always at work so I can take this over.

Eingabetasteunklarheitangstgefühl

Show threaddeBaer18h ago
@hey @daveliepmann @spiralganglion Sorry, but you forgot the Kompositionsfugen. It should be "Eingabetastenunklarheitsangstgefühl". Also, since "Angst" is a feeling, the "Gefühl" sounds a bit redundant. Nice try though.
Show threadSzymon Nowicki15h ago

@deBaer @daveliepmann @spiralganglion I disagree.

https://www.dwds.de/wb/Angstgef%C3%BChl

Angstgefühl – Schreibung, Definition, Bedeutung, Synonyme, Beispiele | DWDS

DWDS – Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

DWDS
Show threadRoma Komarov3d ago
@spiralganglion Also known as “writing a message in an external editor with proper newlines, and then copy&pasting it into the message window”
Show threadfraggle2d ago
@spiralganglion related: is there a German word for "the feeling of having something in your clipboard that you've copied but haven't pasted yet"?
Show threadCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 2d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion Yo!! That is a very real feeling I am acutely aware of... 📋
Show threadIvan Reese1d ago
@catsalad @fraggle If you don't use a clipboard manager, you should! They're a lifesaver. (IIRC, Mac OS Tahoe is getting one built-in)
Show threadMoritz Negwer1d ago
@spiralganglion @catsalad @fraggle Zwischenablagenverunsicherung (or Einfügeangst) might work
Show threadMakoto1d ago
@moritz_negwer @spiralganglion @catsalad @fraggle ich mag Einfügeangst
Show threadJohanna Janiszewski1d ago
@moritz_negwer @spiralganglion @catsalad @fraggle Zwischenablageverlustangst
Show thread🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼1d ago

@catsalad

Very real
Very.
Very daily.

@fraggle @spiralganglion

Show threadAlexander Rutz1d ago
@catsalad @fraggle @spiralganglion Zwischenablagenoffenbarungsangst
Show threadɹ uɐp 1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion SOPWITH RULED BTW
Show threadfraggle1d ago
@dannotdaniel https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith-builds/tags/sdl-sopwith-2.7.0/sopwith.html - you're welcome
Sopwith

Play the classic biplane shoot 'em up

Show threadɹ uɐp 1d ago

@fraggle that's awesome!

hey I beat a level

Show threadɹ uɐp 1d ago

@fraggle

very cool indeed 

Show threadfraggle1d ago
@dannotdaniel last year was the 40th anniversary of the game so here's a little rabbit hole for you https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/40years.html
40 years of Sopwith

Celebrate 40 years of the classic DOS shoot-'em up

Show threadLight1d ago
@fraggle
did:plc:kym5w7pcv4v7xbz7lvbj24na
@dannotdaniel
Show threadOliver D. Reithmaier1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion Ablagenmulmigkeit or Zwischenablagenverlustangst
Show threadAnna1d ago
@odr_k4tana @fraggle @spiralganglion I like Ablagenmulmigkeit, Mulmigkeit is an excellent German word!
Show threadMustardon ~ IWRY 🐲🍑1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion
Nichtpasten.
God, that sounds plausible.
Show threadgullevek ☢️ 🇯🇵1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion Vergessenekopierangst
Show threadFlorian Schmidt1d ago
@fraggle
That would be "Zwischenablagenüberschreibungsangst" then 😅
@spiralganglion
Show threadLocal1d ago
@schmidt_fu @fraggle @spiralganglion that's great. It expresses exactly the feeling.
Show threadJan B.1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion Zwischenablageeinfügeverunsicherung? Kenn ich! 😉
Show threadWildEnte1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion that would be Zwischenablageninhaltsvermutung
Show threadJerryWho1d ago
@WildEnte @fraggle @spiralganglion Feels like it‘s something in math which is famous but still not proven. Maybe it’s something @Eigenraum can do a podcast about it 😉
Show threadCeri Davies1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion or the feeling of having something on your clipboard that you want off it, lest you paste it accidentally
Show threadmaco1d ago

@ceri @fraggle @spiralganglion oof yes that one. I learned how to delete things from Alfred’s clipboard last week.

Highlight the element in the clipboard then hit Fn+Delete

Show threadThomas Elmiger1d ago

@fraggle @spiralganglion Clipboard-FOMO

We are good at importing foreign words and acronyms. You know it has become German because of the hyphen used to glue the parts together.

Show threadSabine Emden1d ago

@telmiger @fraggle @spiralganglion

Yes, German speakers are good at importing English words, but we also change their meaning. Take “handy” for example or “homeoffice”.

For me as a native German speaker who has lived in the United States for the last 16 years, that’s very confusing.

“Click and pick” during the pandemic was one I didn’t understand. It’s called “curbside pickup” where I live.

Show threadallo1d ago

@fraggle
Zwischenablageninhaltsverlustangst

@spiralganglion

Show threadEvery day is extra.1d ago
@allo @fraggle @spiralganglion Nailed that one!
Show threadkolya1d ago
@fraggle @spiralganglion
Zwischenspeicherschwere
(clipboard heaviness)