38th Chaos Communication Congress

Re:38th Chaos Communication Congress by dpassens on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @08:33AM (#42501794)

> Some thoughts are too complex for English.

English just adopts all the good German words. Every time I, a native German speaker, have struggled to express something in English it was either because my personal vocabulary was lacking or because of societal differences, never because English is somehow inferior.

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Re:38th Chaos Communication Congress by davrosthedalek on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @08:55AM (#42501906)

And German has adopted all the good English words.

Like Handy (cell phone), Beamer (projector), and body bag (fanny bag).

Oh wait....

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Re:38th Chaos Communication Congress by dpassens on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @09:51AM (#42502253)

I've never heard a fanny pack called a body bag in German. It's a Bauchtasche in my family.

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Re:38th Chaos Communication Congress by davrosthedalek on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:30AM (#42502522)

Might have been a regional thing. But I think there was an ad on tv... Didn't live long, was too embarrassing :)

Of course Handy is Schwaebisch: Ai handy kai Schnurr?

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Re:38th Chaos Communication Congress by b3orn on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:25PM (#42505387)

Bodybag is more like a messenger bag.

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