"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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>
> Here is what altavista babelfish spits out (probably more for a laughter
> than fore real reading):

Yeah, that's about what I read before. Only, more confusing this time. :-)

I notice in that English version at the web page there are several words I'd
have written separated or at least hyphenated. I will consciously make an
effort to keep words apart in an attempt to remain clear about what I'm
saying to non-English people. In that article I knew code-schnipseln meant
'snippets of code' right away only because it was two words. Templates next
to it would have helped anyway though. Not sure other people think like I do
about that or not, just that trying to make sense of a merged word isn't as
easy to me as seeing them individually. My English teachers in school would
hate me for hyphenating words the way I do now.

Without knowing the language well enough I guess nothing helps. Take for
example the word zweidimensionale. I probably saw that as three dimensional
instead of two. And I knew the numbers from 1 to 10 long ago. Cursed
language barriers!

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