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EU Parliamentary Projection: The End of the Rise of the Right? - Europe Elects (europeelects.eu)

submitted 2 years ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago

I fucking hope so

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This has to be an error. "Top candidates," in case it saves anyone a click.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's used, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzenkandidat

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's relatively straightforward to pronounce, "spit-sin-candy-dat" is reasonably close to the German pronunciation.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I meant, I bet many English speakers mispronounce the word. Sorry about the confusion.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, no misunderstanding afaik. I meant to say that the word is not that hard to pronounce even for non-Germans.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Brb gonna call VdL "candy" quickly

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's a loan word. They say Spitzenkandidat in the Netherlands, too.

[–] Sodis@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah the numbers don't seem to bear out the premise in the title at all.

[–] Sodis@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

They looked at the last projection and compared it to this one. Survey journalism can get annoying.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

looks like i have to take eco-friendlyness into my own hands

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 years ago

Yeas as always humans did. Be in one side or the other and don't use your brain.