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turtles (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just call 'em seaturtles and landturtles like other Germanic languages. Then you can just ask them how they identify and throw them wherever is best suited.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Hungarian word for turtles (both land and sea one) translates to "frog with a bathtub"

[–] cucumber_sandwich 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The German word translates to Shield Toad

[–] lemmy_get_my_coat 5 points 10 months ago

That is fuckin badass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also in Dutch. It's "schildpad".

[–] cucumber_sandwich 2 points 10 months ago

German gets too much credit for compound nouns. Dutch is really good at it as well: bromfiets, snelweg, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hungary is a silly place. The bathtub is upside down then.

[–] Hule 2 points 10 months ago

Actually.. not bathtub, more like trough.

Still upside down. But imagine you had to carry a trough on your back. Which way would you turn it?

[–] dohpaz42 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But what about the one in the US Senate? Surely we can throw that one into the ocean. No?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Those ones belong in a pond, preferably in a Tesla.

[–] ZagamTheVile 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The ocean is polluted enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That means he'll die regardless of which he is!