[WalterBright]

Don't forget:

    gefingerpoken
    mittengraben
    springewerk
    blowenfusen
    poppencorcken
    spitzensparken

[bitwize]

Please keep still and watchen astaunished the blinkenlights.

[lisper]

Das blinkenlights. ;-)

[bitwize]

That was actually from the faux English sign that German computer operators put in their facilities.

[lisper]

Heh. TIL.

[VonGallifrey]

None of those are actual German words. For some of them, I found references that these words could potentially be used in Pennsylvania, but most of these words are not even German, even when you split them into their components.

[FiatLuxDave]

The reference you were looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

[VonGallifrey]

From your link there:

> written in a mangled form of German.

If you show this to anyone who knows German, they will recognize that this was written by someone who doesn't.

[marcusb]

I believe the comment you replied to is what is known as a "joke".

[VonGallifrey]

Given that the commenter left another comment about having been misinformed, I don't think it was a Joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008622

[kevin_thibedeau]

So the stereotype rings true then.

[marcusb]

yeah, it was a joke and what you just linked to was sarcasm and/or mockery.

[WalterBright]

> None of those are actual German words

I've been misinformed!

[marcusb]

It happens to the best of us!

[WalterBright]

I also went to Casablanca for the waters.