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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

no no no, its not a critique specifically of you. Native english speakers do this all the time. And I'm sure its inevitable that "comparatively" will make that transition too.

I'm interested: is there a german word to replace "vergleichsweise " to more explicitly mean "comparison"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It literally means "comparison-wise", so there's no more explicit translation, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well it's German, we can always split up our long words into a long string of shorter words.

If I want to compare something to another specific thing I would probably never use "vergleichsweise" (which is more or less just "rather" like you described "relatively").
I would probably use "im Vergleich zu" (in comparison to).

But maybe that's just me.
And writing in English about German stuff makes my brain feel weird so maybe I don't make much sense rn.