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eventuell and aktuell are two great ones ask any tech worker shat eventual consistency is in german and then get very frazzled

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Whoa, that's indeed a good one.

I think the best option would be to turn it into an adjective:

irgendwannkonsistent.

"Sometime" consistent and "eventually" consistent, not the same things and still confusing.

Maybe better: "letzendlichkonsistent"

(Disclaimer: expat English native speaker, living in Austria, enjoying this thread immensely..)

My Austrian co-worker hates talking tech in German - it just doesn't roll of the tongue and he's more comfortable in English with that domain.

Same. I live in Vienna, and converse with my technical colleagues in English most of the time - although they do expect me to keep up with their crazy dialects over the coffee machine, an activity I find often quite fun, oida...

If you like comics, "Asterix speaks Viennese" might help: https://www.diepresse.com/5450586/asterix-auf-wienerisch-wap...

Thanks for that, its brilliant. Me and my kids salute you!

I've seen Asterix in printed form in Schwäbisch, Swabian. Also in, uh, can't recall if it was Karjalaa or Savvoo, the Carelian or Savonian dialect of Finnish. Maybe both.

Haha lovely!

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