On Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 2:07:24 PM UTC+1 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > Though I can't speak German I recognize its *superb ability to recombine > words into new concepts*. > > Describing TiddlyWiki is not easy. Germans are common here and could > likely provide neat one-word-concepts of ... > > -- "a-program-that-changes-itself" (in German, one word?) > > The closest I could come up with is: "sich selbst-veränderndes Programm"
ATM there is a movement going on, which is named: "Einfache Sprache" ... "simple language", which tries hard to avoid those combined words. The goal is, to be understandable for everyone which reads German texts. Eg: Every "News Portal" should provide information using "Einfache Sprache" There is "Leichte Sprache <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leichte_Sprache>" ... "easy language", which should be even "simpler" to understand and read. The goal is to make German texts (especially government texts) understandable for people with "reading" disabilities. So while it's nice, that German language allows us to combine words and give them a "slightly" different meaning, it also makes it more complicated for "non native" readers. -mario -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5526eb3a-ede2-46ce-ae61-8c1e35005bf0n%40googlegroups.com.
