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Tsk, Trip, that is so small
Donaudampffahrtschiffkapitänsuniformjackenknopffar be, now you are talking !
I must admt my favorite one is the simple yet elegant Erwartungserwartungen
(gosh, I begun learning German because of this ability to play mechano with words)
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
Erwartungserwartungen ranges among the words I use the most (granted, I study sociology in Germany )
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
Originally posted by Calc II
Oh and can you translate those long words so people who don't understand german well has an idea what you are saying
Sure:
Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkung : speed limit
Erwartungserwartungen : "awaitings of awaitings" : sorry, this is sociological talk, and I don't know the English word for it.
Donaudampffahrtschiffkapitänsuniformjackenknopffar be : the color of the suit's button of the captain's uniform of the steamship on the Danube
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
Originally posted by Spiffor
Donaudampffahrtschiffkapitänsuniformjackenknopffar be: the color of the suit's button of the captain's uniform of the steamship on the Danube
You can extend this at will. Here I add a tone to the color:
Donaudampffahrtschiffkapitänsuniformjackenknopffar bton
Here's the guy who invented it:
Donaudampffahrtschiffkapitänsuniformjackenknopffar btonerfinder
Here is his wife:
Donaudampffahrtschiffkapitänsuniformjackenknopffar btonerfinderehefrau
And here her hairstyle:
Donaudampffahrtschiffkapitänsuniformjackenknopffar btonerfinderehefrauenfrisur
You can continue this ad infinitum. Nobody talks this way here, of course. Such words have the sole purpose to discourage foreigners to learn German.
As someone who is currently taking a German course (I took 4 years of German many years ago... been several years since then and I'm trying to pick my skill back up...), I'll tell you this isn't particularly nice to the poor souls just starting with the language...
Personally, my favorite German compound words in German are the ones Immanuel Kant made up... the English translations (I don't remember exactly what they were in German...) are:
Universalizability (the ability of a maxim to be universalized)
Ends-in-themselves (using "end" as with the translation to English of "end" for the Greek word "telos" - not as the typical usage of "end" in English. The term refers to those things, Kant argued people, for which/whom their "end" or purpose, was derived in-and-of-themselves as opposed to externally derived)
The equivalent German words I remember being intimidatingly long, but I don't remember exactly which terms Kant squished together to say these things.
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You can continue this ad infinitum. Nobody talks this way here, of course. Such words have the sole purpose to discourage foreigners to learn German.
It would be very fun if you gave your cities long compound-word names... It would also discourage conquests because by the time the opposing army was even able to read the order to attack a city, you would be able to rush troops there to defend it. Also, if you made sure you have lots of ä ö ü ß in the names, and even ë ï ð þ for good measure, then no one could even type the order! Instead of going to the big German city of München, the troops would find themselves going to the little Korean hamlet of Mun Chen halfway around the world.
If you’re going to be the Arabs, then you could have even more confusion by authentically naming your capital مكّة or is it ماكّة ?
Slightly OT but I hate it when people spell it "Munster". Just a pet peeve of mine. It's like whoever's spelling it is purposely taunting me and acting like some lazy American teenager with no emotion. Not 'munster' "MUUUUUUEEEENNNNSTERRRR"!!!!
Originally posted by Trip
Slightly OT but I hate it when people spell it "Munster". Just a pet peeve of mine. It's like whoever's spelling it is purposely taunting me and acting like some lazy American teenager with no emotion. Not 'munster' "MUUUUUUEEEENNNNSTERRRR"!!!!
Then don’t go to Munster, Texas, just two-and-a-half hours south of me. The umlaut blew away in a tornado years ago and hasn’t been seen since They have a nice restaurant, though.
Originally posted by Trip
Slightly OT but I hate it when people spell it "Munster". Just a pet peeve of mine. It's like whoever's spelling it is purposely taunting me and acting like some lazy American teenager with no emotion. Not 'munster' "MUUUUUUEEEENNNNSTERRRR"!!!!
Originally posted by pikesfan
Then don’t go to Munster, Texas, just two-and-a-half hours south of me. The umlaut blew away in a tornado years ago and hasn’t been seen since They have a nice restaurant, though.
I can only imagine how they say it down there too.
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