ChatGPT Examples, Good and Bad

[sbrothy]

The German translation is by far more colorful: Licking (s.o.) saliva or creeping (in s.o.) a**

Of course, we use only one noun for the whole phrase. I often hear people mocking the German property of concatenating words into a new one. Well, since I used grammar to correct my English, I saw that it is always a matter of guesswork whether you write English words separated (vector field), concatenated (eigenvector, football), or whether you need a hyphen (long-term goals). I definitely prefer concatenations over rolling the dice each time.

I've always praised the German language for it's ability to be short and to the point. (And for being ideal for ordering other people around! )

I'm joking. EDIT: With the last statement anyway.

 

[Hornbein]

I speak German and always thought it sounded comical.

 

[sbrothy]

Maybe in part due to WWII I'm sure a lot of people find nothing funny about it. Unfair as that may be.

 

[fresh_42]

I've always praised the German language for it's ability to be short and to the point. (And for being ideal for ordering other people around! )

I'm joking. EDIT: With the last statement anyway.

You watch too many bad movies, spreading prejudices. An American drill instructor doesn't sound much different.

 

[sbrothy]

You watch too many bad movies, spreading prejudices. An American drill instructor doesn't sound much different.

That's fair. My statements were pretty tasteless there and you're totally right. What I said could be true of any language.

EDIT: Except of course your native one! I find commands and scifi "litterature" beyond comical in Danish!

 

[sbrothy]

[...] I often hear people mocking the German property of concatenating words into a new one. [...]

That's funny I find this to be true in Danish too. Concatenating words is like a trip to a lawless land. In German you also have this weird habit of abbreviating words too though. As in LKW, PKW, kripo (kriminalpolizei), fibu (finanzbuchhaltung), etc....

EDIT: BWL (betriebswirtschaftslehre).... the list goes on and on....

 

[fresh_42]

That's funny I find this to be true in Danish too. Concatenating words is like a trip to a lawless land. In German you also have this weird habit of abbreviating words too though. As in LKW, PKW, kripo (kriminalpolizei), fibu (finanzbuchhaltung), etc....

EDIT: BWL (betriebswirtschaftslehre).... the list goes on and on....

I still think we cannot compete with the American habit of abbreviating everything to 3-letter words. Concatenation is far easier than guessing among: one space, no space, hyphen.

To the rescue of my language, let me close with my most favorite verse.

Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis,
Das Unzulängliche, hier wird's Ereignis,
Das Unbeschreibliche, hier ist's getan,
Das Ewig Weibliche zieht uns hinan. ​

 

[sbrothy]

I still think we cannot compete with the American habit of abbreviating everything to 3-letter words. Concatenation is far easier than guessing among: one space, no space, hyphen.

To the rescue of my language, let me close with my most favorite verse.

Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis,
Das Unzulängliche, hier wird's Ereignis,
Das Unbeschreibliche, hier ist's getan,
Das Ewig Weibliche zieht uns hinan. ​

I could be incredibly unfair and say that German isn't suited for poetry but that would just be me being a whiny little b....

Nothing wrong with it. In fact, I'm gonna look up the author.... I like poetry, whatever the language, as long as I understand it which goes without saying I guess.

EDIT: Also, you really don't like those hyphens, huh?

 

[DaveC426913]