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What's the word for something that would be funny if it wasn't real.
Komischwennesnichtechtwäre
Got to hand it to the German language. I don't know if your joking or its a real expression
It's a joke. That's just the translation of the phrase run together as one word.
Isn't that what German is?
Compound words are very common in German. Some made their way over to English.
Kindergarten = children garden
Zeitgeist = time ghost
Poltergeist = noisy ghost
Wanderlust = desire to roam or hike
Gesundheit = you just peed your pants, slightly.
We also have compound words in English, like breakfast, mailbox, ballpoint, catfish, headache, and storefront. We just tend to keep them short and not start mashing compound words together since we have adjectives to differentiate things
They usually cram a bunch of nouns and verbs together to make words and skip the other stuff.