Europe Elects’ European Parliament projection, commissioned by Euractiv, offers an indication of how voters in the European Union would vote should there be an EU Parliament election today…
  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.deEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    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?

    • janNatanEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

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

        • janNatanEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          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-old@feddit.deEnglish
            7·
            6 months ago

            It’s relatively straightforward to pronounce, “spit-sin-candy-dat” is reasonably close to the German pronunciation.

            • janNatanEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

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

                • janNatanEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months 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.