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

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[–] UNY0N 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The German language is like legos. You can just slap words together to make new ones.

Like glove. It's Handschuh in German, which id hand-shoe. The language is full of words like this.

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

Such a shame that the German for shoe isn't foot-glove.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

To prevent recursion obviously. It's like you have never languaged in your life.