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Re:Psychological effects of coding style (2016) by elliekelly on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:44AM (#23006864)
Can you explain this phrase to a non German speaker? I think ”bratwurst brat gerät” very roughly translates to “bratwurst roasting device” which makes me think of kabab-case instead of UpperCamelCase. German phrases are usually pretty intuitive but I don’t understand this one at all.
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Re:Psychological effects of coding style (2016) by ratww on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:50AM (#23007533)
Germans write those compound words with "German casing", like this: "Bratwurstbratgerät" [1]. It is just a roaster for bratwursts. In other languages like english sometimes compound words are kebab cased, like yes. [2]

Btw, for kebabs you probably want a Dönnergrill :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)#Germani...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound

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Re:Psychological effects of coding style (2016) by bregma on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:30AM (#23007953)
It makes sense if you consider how sausages made from camels can be cooked to get a nice smoky flavour.
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