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  • janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Germans calling gloves “hand-shoes” will never not be funny to me. Similarly, they have so many literal names for things. Suicide is self-muder, airplane is fly-thing, gums are tooth-meat.

    German’s my second language, and just the other day I heard a new term while playing a game that was so literal I didn’t need a dictionary. I wish I could remember what it was.