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deSub: @ → “en” is odd

Open bronger opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

For German, @ is replaced with en. I am a native speaker, and I have never heard of read this “en”. Where does it come from? It is mostly called “at” in German (as in English). Other Geman words for it are very long.

bronger avatar Jun 10 '24 16:06 bronger

Sorry it took me so long to reply. I'm not sure now (it was long time ago). I believe I took it from Python library having similar functionality. Is it worth it to replace it now? It could potentially break some existing German users tests.

matrixik avatar Dec 23 '24 18:12 matrixik

I believe “en” is wrong, but I can not say whether it is a good idea to correct it.

bronger avatar Dec 24 '24 17:12 bronger

I concur with @bronger: I checked Wikipedia, which lists "at" as the main replacement (and ‚an‘, ‚bei‘, ‚per‘, ‚pro‘, ‚für‘, and ‚je‘, none of which makes a possible fits all pick). "En" seems to be a French replacement that somehow got copied into the German block in that Python library.

boki avatar Aug 19 '25 15:08 boki