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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Pen pineapple apple pen 🎶
We also have Kranken-Wagen (ambulance), Kranken-Liege (stretcher)…
One could argue that this happens in almost all languages, at one stage or another, since it’s easier to do this over creating more unique words
Mullet = vokuhila
an acronym for “VOrne KUrz, HInten LAng”, which means “front short, back long”
Gleisschotterbettungsreinigungsmaschine
Yeah, it’s not like we have words like jellyfish…..Â
Release the Kraken (-haus)!
light, house… lighthouse!
Cracked(bones)house
Counterpoint: waterfall
Me asking for directions to the crackhouse while I’m bleeding to death because my pronunciation is poor:
Das gift haus (the poison house)
We even go as far as naming a law “Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz”
that’s how I spoke to a horse one time. I pointed at myself, then pointed at his back, and he knew I wanted to ride him.