HACKER Q&A
📣 pestatije

Why not camel case for German?


Itd make life so much easier for German language learners. I know the idea has no way to be implemented, but some words are just ludicrous and with camel case id be able to read twice as fast


  👤 qwertfisch Accepted Answer ✓
More precise it should be called Pascal case, with the first letter being uppercase, as for all German nouns. The German Wikipedia article about "Binnenmajuskel" provides a bit more information about usage in natural languages.

👤 yorwba
You can actually get an implementation using Camel-Kebab, but it's a package deal with the other rules of "easy German" a.k.a. Leichte Sprache https://www.leichte-sprache.org/leichte-sprache/die-regeln/

Many government websites also offer information in Leichter Sprache.


👤 mdtrooper
+1 Vote.

The spanish people similar bug in our language. We have "accent symbol" optional (with a complex rules) for the words.

When I was a child, I thought it is more easy if the "accent symbol" is mandatory for the words. But the RAE (it is a public institution watcher spanish language rules) said no.


👤 konschubert
Or we could just not concatenate our compound nouns, like all the other languages.