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   Ivan Reese (spiralganglion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 11:31:05 JST Ivan Reese

   Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

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     fraggle (fraggle@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 11:31:04 JST fraggle

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     @spiralganglion related: is there a German word for "the feeling of having something in your clipboard that you've copied but haven't pasted yet"?

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     evol (evol@social.evolved.systems)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 04:00:22 JST evol

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     @spiralganglion the best one is when "return" confirms the action and "shift-return" CANCELS IT

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     Peter (peter_sc@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:07:24 JST Peter

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     @spiralganglion

     You could go with something like Eingabentastenumschalteverwechslungsangst, if you enjoy needlessly long compound words. Doesn't mention newline or messages, though. Sendetastenverunsicherung is a bit looser and closer to something someone would actually use.

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     Otte Homan - remember Geordie (otte_homan@theblower.au)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:07:50 JST Otte Homan - remember Geordie

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     • Peter

     @peter_sc Eingabentastenumschaltungfunktionszweifel? @spiralganglion

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     grambulf (grambulf@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:07:58 JST grambulf

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     • Peter

     @peter_sc @spiralganglion I absolutely feel the Sendentastenverunsicherung

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     Oliver D. Reithmaier (odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:08:33 JST Oliver D. Reithmaier

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     • Peter

     @peter_sc @spiralganglion SENDETASTENVERUNSICHERUNG!!!

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     Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him (dj3ei@mastodon.radio)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:08:33 JST Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him

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     • Peter
     • Oliver D. Reithmaier

     I'm a radio amateur. My transmitter is call my "Sender" in German. It has a button I press if I want it to transmit, which can be called "Sendetaste".

     Just saying.

     @odr_k4tana @peter_sc @spiralganglion

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     LotharMucki 🦄 (lotharmucki@norden.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:08:35 JST LotharMucki 🦄

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     @spiralganglion
     Okay, not too hard. That would be: "Entertastenangst"

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     Admiral Cyberspace✅ (keksdosenmann@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:08:43 JST Admiral Cyberspace✅

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     @spiralganglion Wagenrücklaufzeilenvorschubsfeststellltastenverunsicherungsneigungsdebakel. Oder einfach Shit-into-fear.

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     gummipalme (gummipalme@mastodon.communick.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:09:08 JST gummipalme

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     @spiralganglion shiftreturnnachrichtenverwechslungsundabsendeangst

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     Psycodepath (psycodepath@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:09:10 JST Psycodepath

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     @spiralganglion Zeilenumbruchdatenverarbeitungsunsicherheit

     "Linebreak Data Processing uncertainty"

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     caebo (caebo@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:09:16 JST caebo

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     @spiralganglion Sendeangst or Absendeangst 🤔

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     Incident Creator ❎ (vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:09:20 JST Incident Creator ❎

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     • Kit Bashir

     @spiralganglion
     If you'll let an Austrian (🇦🇹/🇬🇧/🇳🇿/...) muck it up:

     Enterangstverwechslungspanik

     Basically Enter fear confusion panic

     or for slow typists:

     Tastenterror

     "Key terror"

     Though you're not supposed to do that to German these days...

     @Unixbigot

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     💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 (smartmanapps@dotnet.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:09:33 JST 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱

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     @spiralganglion
     And then another one for when you discover a typo after you sent the message 🙂

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     Der Haken (der_haken@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:09:45 JST Der Haken

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     @spiralganglion go ask the finnish, we Germans are using fax and we intend to keep it this way.

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     benny (benny@kirche.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:10:09 JST benny

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     @spiralganglion Zeilenumbrechunsicherheit

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     lebochequirit (lebochequirit@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:10:35 JST lebochequirit

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     @spiralganglion
     Zeilenvorschub-/Absendeangst (ZVAA)

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     Morten Zøllner Wendelboe 🟢🟣 (mortenzw@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:10:37 JST Morten Zøllner Wendelboe 🟢🟣

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     @spiralganglion
     Danish is almost German:

     vognreturtastkonsekvenstvivlsangst

     Vognretur=enter
     Tast=key
     Konsekvens=consequence
     Tvivl=doubt
     S= to make everything preceding, state a special version of the next word
     Angst=fear

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     volk≡r (0x5021@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:10:44 JST volk≡r

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     @spiralganglion Do not feat the Sendetastenverunsicherung! Just tell them that you are mausgerutscht.

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     Exxo (exxo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:10:46 JST Exxo

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     @spiralganglion
     That's obviously "Sendefurcht"! 😉

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     webfussel (webfussel@mastodontech.de)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:11:00 JST webfussel

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     @spiralganglion

     I'd suggest Absendeangst

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:11:29 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Argie

     @SemAntiKast @spiralganglion Because we scare the world with our compound nouns

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     Argie (semantikast@openbiblio.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:11:32 JST Argie

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     @spiralganglion why us of all people?

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     daveliepmann (daveliepmann@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:11:49 JST daveliepmann

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     @spiralganglion Sorry you’ll have to make this request by fax 📠 and the relevant staffer is on vacation until 2029

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     Roma Komarov (kizu@front-end.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:12:02 JST Roma Komarov

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     @spiralganglion Also known as “writing a message in an external editor with proper newlines, and then copy&pasting it into the message window”

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     Oliver D. Reithmaier (odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:12:12 JST Oliver D. Reithmaier

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     • fraggle

     @fraggle @spiralganglion Ablagenmulmigkeit or Zwischenablagenverlustangst

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     Anna (netzhexe@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:12:12 JST Anna

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     • Oliver D. Reithmaier
     • fraggle

     @odr_k4tana @fraggle @spiralganglion I like Ablagenmulmigkeit, Mulmigkeit is an excellent German word!

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     johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu's status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:13:27 JST Johann150

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     @spiralganglion@mastodon.social Zeilenumbrechtastenangst (lit. "fear of the key for line breaking")
     
     doesn't explicitly mention return/shift-return but probably gets the point across in context

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     snow :bot: (collector's edition ✨) (snow@cofe.rocks)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:13:33 JST snow :bot: (collector's edition ✨)

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     @spiralganglion nachrichtenabsendepotentialfurcht
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     carlos@moppels.bar's status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:13:36 JST Carlos

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     @spiralganglion@mastodon.social Entertastentrauma.

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     Jakob Nielsen (eg0njn@expressional.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:13:49 JST Jakob Nielsen

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     @spiralganglion I can give you a danish word:
     Afsendelsestastsforvekslingsfrygt

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     Jakob Nielsen (eg0njn@expressional.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:13:50 JST Jakob Nielsen

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     @spiralganglion literally translates to send button confusion fear

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     jan Ki | 奇 :nonbinary_flag: (ki@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:13:56 JST jan Ki | 奇 :nonbinary_flag:

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     @spiralganglion
     toki pona has a word for it: pakala

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     Stephan (thetraveller@sw-development-is.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:14:07 JST Stephan

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     • Sarah Rainsberger

     @spiralganglion @sarah11918 I suggest: Zeilenumbruchstastenmodusunsicherheit

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     Landa :graz: (landa@graz.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:19:41 JST Landa :graz:

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     @spiralganglion well, the opposite of that word would be „Sendungsbewusstsein“ (when you’re aware what you have to do to send the message).

     So if that’s missing, you end up feeling Sendungsbewusstlosigkeit which could turn into full scale Versandunfähigkeit when your fears overwhelm your executive functions and you can’t even anymore.

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     Klaus Stein (lapizistik@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:19:46 JST Klaus Stein

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     @spiralganglion

     I support the “Sende­tasten­verunsicherung”, nevertheless:

     • Entertastenauswirkungs­konfusion¹
     • Returntasten­modifikations­belegungs­sende­unsicherheit²

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     ¹being confused about what happens when pressing the Enter key
     ²unsureness on how the mapping for sending on a probably modified return key ist set up

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     Fauve (fauve@pouet.chapril.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:20:29 JST Fauve

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     @spiralganglion j’appelle cela l’__introitoclavisophobie__.
     Formé de :
     Introitus : entrée, accès
     Clavis : clé
     Phobie : <va savoir>

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     postweber (postweber@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:20:43 JST postweber

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     @spiralganglion Not-like-Slack-anger. Because Germans use too much English, and get angry before it turns to fear.

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     Vassil Nikolov (vnikolov@ieji.de)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:20:53 JST Vassil Nikolov

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     Scientifically,
     ambiplectrophobia,
     I presume.

     @spiralganglion

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     Ysegrim (ysegrim@furry.engineer)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:21:05 JST Ysegrim

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     @spiralganglion Zeilenumbruchfindungsstörung.

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     Ein Philosophiker (slesa@social.saarland)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:21:20 JST Ein Philosophiker

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     @spiralganglion what about the fear of 'insert pure text' vs 'insert formatted text', resulting from M$ changing the default from Ctrl-V to Ctrl-Shift-V?

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:22:22 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Ein Philosophiker

     @slesa @spiralganglion Textformatierungseinfügungsverwirrung

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     kamikaze 🇩🇪🇬🇧 (kamikaze@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:22:38 JST kamikaze 🇩🇪🇬🇧

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     @spiralganglion Umschaltenterhemmung!

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     Frank Quednau (flq@freiburg.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:22:52 JST Frank Quednau

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     @spiralganglion Eingabemodulationsambivalenzangst is my take

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     adrian (_@graz.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:22:53 JST adrian

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     • kamikaze 🇩🇪🇬🇧

     @kamikaze @spiralganglion hahaha! or "Umschaltagnostik" – also works for situations where you need to type in a password but don't know whether or not capslock is on :p

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     Daniel Fisher(lennybacon) (lennybacon@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:22:54 JST Daniel Fisher(lennybacon)

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     @spiralganglion UMBRUCHANGST

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     ~n (nblr@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:23:44 JST ~n

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     @spiralganglion Zeilenvorschubverunsicherung.

     Generally the german words for “CR” and “LF” are beautiful and deserve to be used more often: “Wagenrücklauf” und “Zeilenvorschub”.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:24:08 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • evol

     @evol A special place in hell …

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     Jörg Thalheim (mic92@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:24:54 JST Jörg Thalheim

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     @spiralganglion Halbfertigversendungsangst

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     Florian Schmidt (schmidt_fu@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 16:25:44 JST Florian Schmidt

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     • fraggle

     @fraggle
     That would be "Zwischenablagenüberschreibungsangst" then 😅
     @spiralganglion

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     Argie (semantikast@openbiblio.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 17:05:25 JST Argie

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe @spiralganglion Kompositagetriebene Weltverunsicherungstaktik

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 17:05:38 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Argie

     @SemAntiKast 👍

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 16:44:37 JST Janneke

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     • Peter

     @peter_sc @spiralganglion Erste allgemeine Sendetasteverunsicherung