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# Wasserstoff
is hydrogen. It's funny that although the Germans are amusing cos they assemble words, our nouns are often exactly the same except in latin/greek. 'hydrogen' = water made, submarine = under sea and so on.

/cerebral
(, Fri 17 Jan 2003, 14:23, archived)
# the great
thing about german is that you can just keep making longer and longer words. my flatmate once told me the word for a machine that cleans tramtracks. it took about 4 days.
(, Fri 17 Jan 2003, 14:26, archived)
# Some of the peeps here in the office
loved "Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" which is speed limit.

Very good tip:
When dealing with multilanguage sites/products/GUIs, use german or french as the first test language, all others will fit nicely.

I had my share trying to fit "zurechtschneiden" on a 100px "crop" button lately.
(, Fri 17 Jan 2003, 14:27, archived)