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Same here. I love the creativity (and am impressed by it) it takes to invent new German words for things, even though I agree that it is impractical for the reason you pointed out.

Sadly, terms like "Klapprechner" for "laptop" or "Verklemmung" for "deadlock" never caught on.

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Now that you say it ... some professors stubbornly seem to stick to "Verklemmung" :)

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/Studium/Bs/WS2021/V07-Verklemmu...

Enjoy this pdf of nearly 400 pages: https://www4.cs.fau.de/DE/~wosch/glossar.pdf

The second I started reading this thread I was wondering how long it would take for a Wosch document to show up! Thanks for making my day :)

I took his OS class in undergrad and I remember distinctly being annoyed at "Fäden".

„Verklemmung“ is actually a better word for it than “deadlock”.

This reminds me of the time I worked for a local telecommunications company and wrote software to interface with EWSD (Elektronisches Wählsystem Digital) switches. Honestly, working with telecommunications systems was the best time I had in my entire career.

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