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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup
I for example would always abbreviate total as tot, even if there was no limit on name lengths. Tot actually means dead in German now that I think of it, and I only just realized this and don't think anyone thought of death ever when reading my variable names. It certainly was never intended as a joke.
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This reminds me of the time the German magazine Der Spiegel ran a cover story on the Queen.
The cover headline? Die Queen.
Obviously to Germans die is the feminine article, but to English speakers it was quite a different message.