Timeline for German mathematical terms like "Nullstellensatz"
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| Jul 9, 2011 at 9:01 | vote | accept | Martin Brandenburg | ||
| Apr 19, 2011 at 16:32 | comment | added | user9072 | Dear Georges Elencwajg, yes, and even if the decomposition is actually unique one can cause confusion. Some people like to tease kids by pronouncing the following wrong and asking them whether they know what it means: Blumento|pferde (suggesting Blumento-horses which do not exist) instead of Blumentopf|erde (flower-pot soil); same for Palat|schinken (suggesting it is Palat-ham which does not exist) which is actually just one word Palatschinken (some form of crepe, derived from Czech, Hungarian, or Romanian). | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 16:03 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Dear unknown, concatenation is non-assocative. Proof: Mädchen(handelsschule) $\neq$ (Mädchenhandels)schule | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:25 | comment | added | user9072 | Now I can't resist: 'Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsraddampferkapitänskajütentürersatzsicherheitsschlüsselhaken' The above is artificial but apparently this: 'Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz' was the name of an actual draft for a bill. On a more serious note, the feature (or bug) of the German language of allowing more or less arbitrary concatenations of nouns to create new words seems to be one of the reasons why some expressions remain untransated/untranslateable. [If this is too off-topic let me now and I delete.] | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:09 | comment | added | user5831 | Can't resist to post this drawing by Mark Twain who was a special friend of the german language which is famous for its long words...gutenberg.org/files/5788/5788-h/5788-h.htm#p612 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:05 | comment | added | Emerton | Dear Chandan, This is the example that came to my mind when I read the question too. (It's strange to read that this seems funny to non-algebraic number theorists ... .) Best wishes, Matt | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 12:53 | comment | added | user5831 | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor-discriminant_formula | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 12:09 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | What does that translate to anyway? | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 9:22 | comment | added | Marcel Bischoff | I had to google this to convince myself it was not a joke... | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 9:05 | history | answered | Chandan Singh Dalawat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |