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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Chinese is incredible for this

airplane is flying machine, your cell phone is your hand machine, assassin is kill hand, computer is electric brain

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

German has "hand shoes" (gloves) and "shield toads" (turtles)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Sick car" (ambulance)

KRANKENWAGEN

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

hell yes I knew this one and forgot michael-laugh

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

the Japanese word for socks is "undershoes"

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, English has underpants and undershirts

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And "flying thing" for plane.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Japanese has "kubi" (neck), "tekubi" (wrist, literally "hand neck"), "ashikubi" (ankle, literally "leg neck") and "chikubi" (nipple, literally "breast neck")

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

hungarian calls the foot the leg-head...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Think on your feet!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Oh I don't like tooth meat at all kombucha-disgust

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Swedish is exactly the same for the examples you brought upp, but we share a lot with german so its checks out i guess..

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Why isn't it called a teethbrush?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

you don't have a seperate brush for each tooth? fucking commies smh

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Stalin ate all of the teethbrushes himself so now we're left with toothbrushes (which we have to share because communism)

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They call em fingers but I've never seen em fing.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Butchers are sometimes butch.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

German is pretty famous for this, but we do it a lot in English too. We just don't concatenate our words and have lots of loan words

I wish maths had this for names. I don't want to remember mathematicians names.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just gotta remember euler and that's like 90% of stuff 👍

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Literally everything should be like this, fuck naming stuff after a person. Most of the time it's just the first white dude who wrote about the thing anyway. Animals, theories, buildings, rename all of it

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I like how Brits and North American Anglos both find each other’s version of washing-up liquid/dish soap hilariously literal

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

pain killers is a funny one to me

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