German CamelCase?

Question

German speakers, the way you create new words by concatenation is fantastic but hard to read. Lebensversicherungsgesellschaft could be faster for the brain to separate as : LebensVersicherungsGesellschaft Is it used / permitted ?

Tomte · Accepted Answer

No, but with a dash it would be correct: Lebens-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft“, though it looks a bit stilted in this case, but would be perfectly fine (and even preferred) in many other cases.
Way too many people nowadays would write it as „Lebens Versicherungs Gesellschaft“, which is orthographically wrong, but will soon be considered correct.
Just look at names like „Techniker Krankenkasse“, „Alnatura Kicher Erbsen“ or „Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen“.
That ship has sailed.

dschuessler · Answer

As a German, I can assure you: It is neither used, nor permitted. I like the idea though.

jamil7 · Answer

Ha I like this idea, I do this in my head when reading German words. Nit - wouldn't this be PascalCase not camelCase? :)

ThePadawan · Answer

Maybe unsurprisingly, there is a (frustratingly non-self-referential) name for this concept called Binnenmajuskel [0].[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnenmajuskel

detaro · Answer

It's only used to explain acronyms, never in normal text usage.

alcover · Answer

Thank you all for the informationdenseresponses.In my outsider opinion, "Leben Versicherung Gesellschaft", as English would do it, is the best one as visually the fastest and sparing the genitive.

German CamelCase?

German speakers, the way you create new words by concatenation is fantastic but hard to read.
`Lebensversicherungsgesellschaft`
could be faster for the brain to separate as :
`LebensVersicherungsGesellschaft`
Is it used / permitted ?

As a German, I can assure you: It is neither used, nor permitted. I like the idea though.

Ha I like this idea, I do this in my head when reading German words. Nit - wouldn't this be PascalCase not camelCase? :)

Maybe unsurprisingly, there is a (frustratingly non-self-referential) name for this concept called Binnenmajuskel [0].
[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnenmajuskel

It's only used to explain acronyms, never in normal text usage.

Thank you all for the informationdenseresponses.
In my outsider opinion, "Leben Versicherung Gesellschaft", as English would do it, is the best one as visually the fastest and sparing the genitive.