kneekap@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 years agoThe speed bag looking thinglemmy.worldimagemessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1435arrow-down112
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minus-squareVincent@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoI don’t think that was intended as an example of a long German word being short in English. Rather, it was an example of the meaning of a word being clear from the word itself.
minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoTo me it was both. The descriptive nature of words on the one hand and the word length which often comes with it on the other. Eichhörnchenschwanz is one more nice example (it also works with dialects: oachkatzlschwoaf - an oak cat’s tail) :D
minus-squareVincent@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years ago🇳🇱 Eekhoorntjesstaart! (And vlammenwerper of course.)
minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoGoogle insists that I must have mistyped eekhoorntjestaart. Who am I to argue? 🤷♀️
I don’t think that was intended as an example of a long German word being short in English. Rather, it was an example of the meaning of a word being clear from the word itself.
To me it was both. The descriptive nature of words on the one hand and the word length which often comes with it on the other.
Eichhörnchenschwanz is one more nice example (it also works with dialects: oachkatzlschwoaf - an oak cat’s tail) :D
🇳🇱 Eekhoorntjesstaart! (And vlammenwerper of course.)
Google insists that I must have mistyped eekhoorntjestaart. Who am I to argue? 🤷♀️