Klimatkalkylinfrastrukturhållningens energianvändning
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peer agreement (net): +1the energy consumption ass. w maintaining the infrastructure required for calculating climate models Explanation: This is the reading that makes the most sense to me. Using compound nouns as long as this is a stylistic no-no, and, at best, betrays poor communication skills. ass. = associated w = with |
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the calculated energy consumption based on maintenance of climate infrastructure Explanation: People who construct such words are criminally incompetent (unless it's done as a joke) and ought to be put behind bars. There is no surefire way of getting to the semantics of this abomination, so anyone's guess is as good as mine. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 21 mins (2018-02-04 10:44:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- As a previous editor of translations, I'm quite used to green translators compounding long words in this fashion (but hardly ever this extreme) when they translate from English to swedish. I have as a rule of thumb that words in swedish should be kept below 20 characters as a standard, and rarely, if ever, should exceed a length of 30 characters. (that allows sensible albeit somewhat unnecessary 26 character constructions as "haverikommisonsordförande", which I would have preferred broken up as "haverikommissionens ordförande" or 19 and 10 characters. It is almost never a need to go beyond 20 characters.) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2018-02-04 11:59:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I wonder if the swedish source itself might be a translation from another language. My experience is that swedes rarely compound like this when they write themselves, but often do it when they translate, and the reason as far as I can tell is that if you don't compounds, you're forced to use prepositions or possessive to impose a sentence structure, but you're often faced with that the original source has some ambiguity to it, and you're forced to do some deep thinking to figure out which preposition should be used or what is possessing what, and if you make the wrong choice, you've also made an incorrect translation. Compounding is the coward's or lazy person's way of being sure he translates correctly. That the result is unreadable is another matter. |
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