this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
599 points (98.1% liked)

NonCredibleDefense

3493 readers
52 users here now

Rules:

  1. Posts must abide by lemmy.world terms and conditions
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 37 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 126 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If anyone wants to know, "Beweglichertorpfostenkrieg" is literally just "moving goal posts war" disguised as a german compound word.

[–] Sheeple 54 points 11 months ago (4 children)

As a German, this word was compounded incorrectly anyway. Adjectives don't get compounded. So it would be "Beweglicher Torpfostenkrieg"

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Look guys, I found the Grammer Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's actually quite easy to correct, so why not mention it?

Make that "moving goal post war" a "goal post movement war" and now it's all nouns and valid to compound them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

German...Grammer...Nazi...

Sir, this is a Noncredible Wendy's, not a Highly Credible Outback Steakhouse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is wrong. That would describe a certain type of war, but specify that the war is movable.

I think the "Torpfostverschiebekrieg" mentioned in another comment would be the best solution.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But surely wouldn't that imply the existence of such thing as a 'goal post war'? Because the term is meant to mean '(moving goal post) (war)', and not '(moving) (goal post war)'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Beweglicher-Torpfosten-Krieg looks about right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ah yes that makes sense

[–] ChunkMcHorkle 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

deleted by creator

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

On the other hand in Finnish that's can be one word: maalitolpansiirtosota. No sense implied.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hmm they can try using that as the new Паляниця (Palanitsya).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is it not a German compound word?

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

„Torpfostenbewegungskrieg“ would be correct. I‘d prefer „Torpfostverschiebekrieg“ though.

[–] Sheeple 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's incorrect actually! We don't compound adjectives (Beweglicher)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Interesting! Thank you for the explanation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We do it though... it's just not correct.

[–] rustyfish 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Putin after the war: „And with that, I declare our special operation to lower our male population a great success!“

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

increasing female to male ratio

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bro your speech mark fell off and it’s at the bottom of the word now ._.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ you can't just go around calling people that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I can and I did. You can't stop me!

[–] Ekybio 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's 5th generation warfare because it takes 5 generations to recover from it

[–] Cort 6 points 11 months ago

Huh, I just thought it was an autocorrect of "5th grade"

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

Putin is that kid on the playground that kept announcing new rules every time he was losing.

[–] archonet 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not a retreat, it's a blitzkrieg in reverse.

[–] Wodge 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Syrc 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Geirkztlib

I knew those fuckers were at it again smh

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Putin be like:

[–] Fried_out_Kombi 13 points 11 months ago

My god, Putin's been playing 5th-gen chess this whole time!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure Alex Jones invented that method

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

P.S For those who don't know, "Ukrop" is slur for "ukrainian" which also means "dill" (like the herb)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a Richmond VA native, we had a grocery store chain called Ukrops. I didn't realize it was insult in Ukraine.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 3 points 11 months ago

oh it's an insult even in Russia now...

[–] ThatOneDudeFromOhio 6 points 11 months ago

The U.S. invented that circa 1955 lol

[–] sentinelthesalty 5 points 11 months ago

Tzeench MF's be like.