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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is how we would talk if English were more like German. Why invent new words when we can just combine old ones? Glove = hand shoe, turtle = shield toad, raccoon = wash bear, etc.

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  • aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why German words have ten syllables?

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, pretty much, they just mash a bunch of words together.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol, these are great. I want more.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One interesting one is porcupine = spine pig. The English word means the same thing, but latin-based stead of germanic.

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