Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?

Re:Just how complicated could it be to register a German com... by InCityDreams on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:10PM (#33597262)

>....as the languages are actually quite similar.

They're actually quite not. Try typing something into www.deepl.com - verb placement alone separates the languages by much more than a few shared roots.

* I do so wish the German rules on the pronunciation of 'ei', and 'ie' could be/ could have been internationally adopted.

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Re:Just how complicated could it be to register a German com... by AlbertCory on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:34PM (#33597690)

I hosted Greil Marcus at Google. His first name rhymes with "real" and not with "style" as one with German training would expect.

I asked him about that. He said in Alabama where he was born this was fairly common.

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Re:Just how complicated could it be to register a German com... by still_grokking on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:47AM (#33609069)

>> ....as the languages are actually quite similar.

> They're actually quite not.

Of course German and English are very close related.

Both are Germanic languages. Look here, in the right lower corner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages#/media...

Or here:

https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/34/

Not only words and grammar are closely related even most of the idiomatic "pictures" are exactly the same in both languages.

I have also no clue what you mean by "verb placement alone separates the languages" as both languages use by default SPO (subject - predicate - object) word order. (German is a little bit more flexible in this regard, though).

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