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EU Parliamentary Projection: The End of the Rise of the Right? - Europe Elects (europeelects.eu)
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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 months ago

I fucking hope so

[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 24 points 5 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?

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago

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

[-] zaphod@feddit.de 27 points 5 months ago
[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 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@feddit.de 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Brb gonna call VdL "candy" quickly

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

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 5 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.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Sodis@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

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

[-] Sodis@feddit.de 5 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

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

[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 5 months ago

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

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