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your brain on day 3 of planing a magnetic loop antenna (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The "There is a German word for this" of the week:

Personenvereinzelungsanlage

Thank me later.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

So essentially a 'queue slicer'?

Bruh. Why does German make so much sense

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mostly, they cheat. They just describe a thing and take away the spaces.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rindfleischettikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Mfg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think it's been repealed btw. :'(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So words are no longer allowed to describe themselves? Hmm I might need to rethink a few languages...

(But sure you may consider it cheating, languages in general are weird.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

We are allowed to invent new words in our language (allowed by grammar)

So you want to give a thing a word you just can take what it does and make it a world.

So this device is designed to make people crowds to a single stream of persons.

Personen(persons)vereinzelung(noun for creating a single of sth.)anlage(device/equipment/machine/facility)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i mean you just did the same thing in english, queue slicer
the only difference is that in german it's more normal to shove words together and call it one word, whereas english is for once easier to understand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah. Also you Germans tend to give things very descriptive names (like this one) which I like. Nobody in England would think to call this a queue slicer, to us it'd be a turnstile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Personenvereinzelungsanlage

No, we don't use that word. It's "Drehkreuz" or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's definitely not "whatever"