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  • #16
    there's too many

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    • #17
      Schizer (sp?)-it actually sounds like what it is
      ku eshte shpata eshte feja
      Where the Sword is, There lies religion

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      • #18
        Chichester, say that Eastie
        www.my-piano.blogspot

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        • #19
          Kohlelichtbogenschweissen (das)



          or the classic Sauerkraut
          Just walk away.

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          • #20
            Hauptfeldwebel
            Wasserpfeife
            Berufungsinstanz
            Blutwurst
            Etikettenschwindel
            Tätervolk

            and last but not least:
            Handy
            justice is might

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            • #21


              I always liked (and used):

              ausgezeichnet!
              ____________________________
              "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
              "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
              ____________________________

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              • #22
                What's German for 'banana'?
                -30-

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                • #23
                  Banane, as said

                  oedo - etikettenschwindel?

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                  • #24
                    Slumper.
                    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                    • #25
                      of the choices, "Eisenfaust". always loved that.

                      but i really love the word "Panzer", for it's simplicity and awesome sound. also, i find the word "umwelt" (own world) quite an interesting one personally.

                      i love the german ability to combine words into one super word.
                      "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
                      - Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

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                      • #26
                        Verzeihung

                        It's remarkable the amount of venom you can put into saying the word, considering it's meaning.

                        I'm fairly sure you could lob a wad at your target on the second syllable, with practice.
                        No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                        • #27
                          My favourites from German lessons back at school are "Rauchgasentschwefelungsanstalt", "Vierschnittslähmung" and "Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz" (conveniently abbreviated as BAföG).

                          From those above, I picked "Reichsdeputationshauptschluss" - the longer a German word, the better!

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                          • #28
                            schwalbe

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                            • #29
                              weissbier
                              Que l’Univers n’est qu’un défaut dans la pureté de Non-être.

                              - Paul Valery

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                              • #30
                                As any reader of 1970's boy's comics about WW2 will recognise.

                                "Aaarghh!"

                                Not to be confused with the Japanese "Aieeee!"
                                The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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