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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  and that name actually makes sense, like EVERYTHING in Deutsch! because it is a Cross Slotted Screwdriver.. in English, we venerate Mr. Phillips every single day, amen.. whoever he was..

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Phillips Head is a trash screwdriver. Like any patriotic Canadian, I believe in Red Robby supremacy

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    • legion02@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m partial to star drive lately. Most of the benefits of robertsons but engagement points every 60 degrees instead of 90.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But is it tapered?

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    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only squares like the Robertson drive.

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  • TipRing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I didn’t know the term for that kind of screwdriver in German, but I speak it enough that if someone asked me for one, I’d know what they meant because the name is descriptive. In English, not so much.

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    • negativenull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

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      • TipRing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok, so without looking (and forgive me my vocabulary is really lousy from disuse)

        My strategy for compound words is usually to try to break up the word, starting at the end, since mostly they are nouns with a bunch of adjectives stuck in front.

        Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

        So kapitän is easy since it’s a near cognate for captain.

        Gesellschaft looks like a word i used to know, but I can’t remember it.

        Schiffahrt - i don’t know this one, but it looks like schiff (ship) plus fahren (to go) - shipping?

        Ampf - no clue

        Donaud - I feel like this must be modifying ampf, because it doesn’t look like a word on its own, but since I don’t know ampf I am stumped.

        So my guess is someone in charge of something to do with shipping.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This guy.

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• negativenull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hehehe, German’s have the best name for things. Amazing

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They take existing words and slap them together to make new ones. For example, a turtle is a shield toad and gloves are hand shoes.

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