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What are we going to learn? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder if speakers of other languages also find English words kind of ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gift in German means poison.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they are on the opposite side of “lol German words are compounded like crazy” and look at us as “lol English has a different word for everything now get me a drink from the cool closet before I put you in the sick house, you shield toad.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, “shield toad”?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Turtle. Or tortoise. Same word for both in German.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Well, we do distinguish between land shield toads and water shield toads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Marvelous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Words like comeuppance and conniption? Bunghole? Squeegee? Hoedown? Poppycock?

English has words I'm sure English speakers find funny/ridiculous.

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

According to google translate this means "lime stuffing" so it kinda just is ridiculous

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

according to the Swedish dictionary, a "stuff" is a drill core, or other piece of rock that's used in lab tests. so "kalkstuff" is a piece of limestone. google translate has no clue in this case.

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

It'd not actual Swedish, just words related to the product mashed together.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So close