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I fucking hope so
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for example all the Spitzenkandidaten have been announced.
Is this a word missed by an otherwise very good machine translation, or has Spitzenkandidat entered European English?
This has to be an error. "Top candidates," in case it saves anyone a click.
No, it's used, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzenkandidat
I swear... We English speakers seem to view German compound words as some sort of untranslatable magic. I bet they pronounce it horribly as well.
It's relatively straightforward to pronounce, "spit-sin-candy-dat" is reasonably close to the German pronunciation.
I meant, I bet many English speakers mispronounce the word. Sorry about the confusion.
Oh, no misunderstanding afaik. I meant to say that the word is not that hard to pronounce even for non-Germans.
I truly believe you overestimate the pronunciation abilities of non-German English speakers attempting to pronounce German. They will say "spits candidate" and call it a day.
Brb gonna call VdL "candy" quickly
It's a loan word. They say Spitzenkandidat in the Netherlands, too.
It is still a shift to the right from the current parliament. The green block will lose substantially and the social democrats as well. Only the left slightly gains some seats in the current projection.
Yeah the numbers don't seem to bear out the premise in the title at all.
They looked at the last projection and compared it to this one. Survey journalism can get annoying.
Yeas as always humans did. Be in one side or the other and don't use your brain.