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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Guys honestly how can dyslexic people read these "words"

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    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 😅

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Schiffsschraubeneichungsvorgabenverordnungsüberwacher

    From google translate: "Ship propeller calibration specification regulation supervisor"

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    An English software developer would write that as, ShipPropellerCalibrationSpecificationRegulationSupervisor so only the camel case would make a difference here

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Only a Java dev would write that abomination

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    German's more extreme compound words seem like a good linguistic use case for CamelCase.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    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!)

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Got another one for you: Mehrlagensichtfensterklotzbodenbeutel The bag some cookies come in.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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 😔

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    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 😁

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I had dyslexia as a kid and long words freaked me out especially. I never realized that this isn't a thing for kids in other languages. But honestly: while they have a shock value, they aren't that common really

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