chucker, 2 months ago

(that’s recycled polyethylene-based protective sleeves for the rear wiper, of course)

mxk, 2 months ago

@chucker @PurpleBooth do you still want to learn German?

chucker, 2 months ago

@mxk @PurpleBooth I ain’t going back to Grundschule

PurpleBooth, 2 months ago

@mxk @chucker lol, I live here, so it'd be kinda rude not to

PurpleBooth, 2 months ago

@mxk @chucker In many ways those sorts of words are pretty easy, like they are just a bunch of words without spaces

chucker, 2 months ago

@PurpleBooth @mxk though it can at times be tricky to find the separator. With Lampenöl, for example. Is it Lampen-Öl or Lampe-Nöl?

mxk, 2 months ago

@chucker @PurpleBooth you mean like BlumentoPferde? (Actually BlumentopfErde, aka the soil you buy for your flower pots)

PurpleBooth, 2 months ago

@mxk @chucker Eine sprache ohne wortwitze ist ein sprache ohne freut

mxk, 2 months ago

@PurpleBooth I certainly have a lot of non-german colleges, who still struggle with German after years here.

finestructure, 2 months ago

@chucker Wischerkondom was right there

chucker, 2 months ago

@finestructure 😏

RickJ, 2 months ago

@chucker if you say it 5 times fast, the Environment Secretary will haunt you 😉
PS. Is it from Austria? just wondering since "Kübel" is rarely used in Germany.

chucker, 2 months ago

@RickJ unsure. Someone from BaWü posted it. https://x.com/birgit0507/status/1770130007769141394

We do use Kübel up north, although indeed not that often.

dzso, 2 months ago

@chucker Congratulations to Germans megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért!

Sincerely,

Hungarians

chbmeyer, 2 months ago

@dzso @chucker yes, two minutes ago I thought that the hungarian language might be similar funny.
Since both langauges are quite different, perhaps we should invent rules to decide the complexity of the word. 🤔

dzso, 2 months ago

@chbmeyer @chucker To be fair, while Hungarian is technically capable of very long words, I think German tends to actually use long words much more frequently.

RA_Negm, 2 months ago

@dzso @chbmeyer @chucker Oh, for decades Germans tend to "break" words, even it is simply wrong. (A hyphen can do the job, if you really want to, but many Germans have started to simply break the words in the middle of nowhere.)

My lecturer once said: "I'm awaiting to read <Sonnen Schein> [subshine]", what is terrible and even in Englisch wrong (like "sun shine").

chucker, 2 months ago

@RA_Negm @dzso @chbmeyer it’s funny; in English, I have no problem following the flow of separated words, but in German, I don’t expect it and find it hard to read. Sonnen-Schein works, but Sonnen Schein breaks my brain. I have to read it twice.