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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait a moment, "schlepped" is an english word and it means the same like carrying? Because it's from german word "schleppen".

[–] [email protected] 34 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

My guess would be that the word made it into the English vocabulary via Yiddish.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

It exists with different spellings in all the Scandinavian languages as well, borrowed from old Saxon.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

In English, it's usually used in a context where there's some humor, frustration, or irony involved, like in the comic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Okay that sounds familiar. Germans use it the same way. Carry means "tragen" and nobody would use "schleppen" in a serious sentence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Schleppen is an act of heavy carrying. So smb. carries (trägt) a pen from a to b. But smb. schleppt a 20kg canister of water from a to b.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

"I carried my equipment out to the car"

Vs

"I schlepped all my brothers' crap out to the car again"