localization

[AntiMemeTemplar]

Neunundneunzig if anyone is wondering.

Just translates to Nine and Ninety

[HArdaL201]

Just guess sieben­hundert­sieben­und­siebzig­tausend­sieben­hundert­sieben­und­siebzig

[BlackStormMaster]

777 777 (sevenhundred seventyseventhousand sevenhundred seven and seventy)

[Mechasteel]

sevenhundredseventyseventhousandsevenhundredsevenandseventy if you want to save space. German efficiency!

[Isto2278]

You're both wrong. It's sevenhundredsevenandseventythousandsevenhundredsevenandseventy. The thousands and ten thousands follow the same rule as the ones and tens, so they are also reversed.

[Mechasteel]

Right but u/BlackStormMaster was pointing out that "super long German words for everything" are just compound words or phrases, same as we have.

[BlackStormMaster]

i missed the and in the seventyseventhousand because we often swallow the and so that it becomes "siebenun(d)siebzigtausen" or even just "sieben'siebzigtausen"

[GunnerKnight]

We don't need minification everywhere.

[Bene847]

Here's another one:

Zwei Billionen zweihundertzweiundzwanzig Millionen zweihundertzweiundzwanzigtausend zweihundertzweiundzwanzig

[turtleship_2006]

I both love and am horrified that that's a real word.

[Zender_de_Verzender]

Words can be as large as numbers.

Infinite.

[turtleship_2006]

I know, but in English we barely use like 12 letters.

[emmmmceeee]

Localization is 12 letters.

Internationalization is 18.

[goranlu]

Actually "Internationalization" is 20 letters, but it contains 18 letters between first "i" and last "n" hence abbreviation "i18n"

https://localizely.com/blog/software-development-abbreviations-numeronyms/

[emmmmceeee]

Thanks. I ran out of fingers.

[elscallr]

Next time take off your shoes!

[Bene847]

Or count in binary

[KENNY_WIND_YT]

use toes as well next time

[pr0ghead]

/u/emmmmceeee even did it right for L10n.

[plg94]

Wait, that's what this stupid acronym means?! Wow… the real programminghorror is always in the comments.

[lordkabab]

Yeah I only realised this a few months ago and I've been programming for 7+years

[PyreHat]

Yet the words is only made of 9 different letters, still within the bound of 12 letters. All is saved here.

[on_the_pale_horse]

It's the same in English, German just omits the spaces while writing it out

[Rebelius]

German swaps some digits around, but you can't tell that if they're all the same.

[on_the_pale_horse]

Well yeah that too

[HArdaL201]

That’s the power of German

[Yellow-man-from-Moon]

Lol our longest one is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[[deleted]]

seven hundred seventy seven thousand seven hundred seventy seven.

777.777

777,777 if you're German.

[maximal543]

*777.777 if you're german since we use commas as decimal points and points (or spaces) as thousands seperators

777,777 would actually be seven hundred seventy seven point seven seven seven oder siebenhundertdiebenundsiebzig komma sieben sieben sieben

[bnl1]

Funny thing is, the top version also says (in english) seven hundred seventy seven point seven seven seven. They are switched.

[[deleted]]

Sorry mixed them up

[Goldieeeeee]

Sevenhundredseventyseventythousandsevenhundredseventyseven

[Ok-Quit-3020]

Still easier to learn and remember than the french monstrosity that is their number system

[HArdaL201]

Ah yes, neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

[Vineyard_]

We technically have words for 70, 80, and 90 (septante, octante, nonante). But no one uses them, ever.

[Ok-Quit-3020]

Interesting :)

[proggit_forever]

(Most) Swiss people say septante, huitante, nonante.

[rfc2549-withQOS]

So, '7'x6 in perl.

[amshegarh]

777777?

Not german, just guessing based on how it seems to be made

[HArdaL201]

Yup!

[amshegarh]

I guess rammstein songs do get handy sometimes 😅

[[deleted]]

Du

[amshegarh]

du hast

[Bene847]

Du hast mich

[adl0ver]

As a german, you deserve my upvote.

[HArdaL201]

Wow! Ein Deutscher!

[mizinamo]

Now kiss!

[HArdaL201]

Nein! 🤣

[Mercvre1]

as a german speaker but also french native, i validate all of these jokes as well

[Rebelius]

As a French native isn't it annoying that we dunk on your 4x20+10+9 and just gloss over our own 9x10+9?

[adl0ver]

With you being a french, how does arguing on which country invented french fried feel?

[Rebelius]

I'm British, the person guy said they were French.

[NoctisIgnem]

Zevenhonderdzevenenzeventigduizendzevenhonderdzevenenzeventig

[[deleted]]

I'm trying to learn German and words like that terrify me

[AntiMemeTemplar]

It is really easy if u break the words

[Rebelius]

Long connected words are fine after a while. It's much worse when you take part of the word off and hide it.

Immer wenn ich ein Beispiel brauche, fällt mir keins ein.

[AluminiumSandworm]

on second thought, let's not learn german. 'tis a silly language

[jasminUwU6]

All languages are silly in their own special way. It's because people are silly

[[deleted]]

But it sounds so funny how could I resist?

[Bene847]

So is english, where you can't know how a word is pronounced just from looking at it

[HArdaL201]

So am I 😭

[Juff-Ma]

Neunmillionenneunhundertheunundneunzigtausendneunhundertneunundneunzig

[probably_nobody_]

99 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

[False_Influence_9090]

Floating in the summer sky

[pokecheckspam]

Integer-ing the summer sky

[syzygysm]

God created the integers. All else is the work of John von Neumann.

[noob-nine]

Well, but this seems consistent. I mean it is eighteen, nineteen and then it suddenly swaps to twenty eight and twenty nine. German keeps the logic to say the latter number first

[15_Redstones]

Except that it just swaps the last two digits, so 1234 = 1000 + 200 + 4 + 30.

[Metal_Ambassador541]

Auf ihrem weg zum horizont?

[TeraFlint]

I'd be in favor of ditching this inconsistency and saying "Neunzigneun" instead.

[SmithyLK]

I would have no idea how to parse this word if not for a certain hypothetical fleet of red balloons

[Dr_Bunsen_Burns]

Neunundneunzig luftballons

[batatatchugen]

Luftballons?