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There is problem ;)

MattisManzel:
Not too serious though, “little problem”. To evite grammatical chaos we should preferably stick to “wiki” as the word determining the article of an assembled word:
In English it has no consequences on the grammatical construction whether I use wiki-center / center-wiki or wiki-list / list-wiki, etc.
In German it has. “Liste” is female in German, wiki is neutrum (I use neutrum at least). Consequently talking about wiki-Liste you have to use the female article which tears it a lot over to the meaning of “list” and away from the meaning “wiki”. This creates eviteable confusion. It would be much clearer using (das) “Listen-wiki” instead of (die) “wiki-Liste” The only way to fix it is to rename wiki-list to list-wiki. And further on wiki-center to center-wiki. The term oddwiki has been too tightly linked together for me to dare to split it. I thought about odd-wiki, I remember. Well …

So, imagine please

And thinking further that German is one of the few languages having a third, neutral article it probably would be better to use “der wiki”, male article, like Alex does it - and like I do it already in Italian (il Venezia-wiki, …).


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