Lol, these are great. I want more.
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samus12345@lemmy.world 9 months agoThis 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.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 9 months ago
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.
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This is why German words have ten syllables?
samus12345@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, pretty much, they just mash a bunch of words together.