- Certainly_No_Brit ( @Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de ) 59•6 months ago
What do you have against “Rhababerbarbarakuchenbarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel”?
- zqwzzle ( @zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ) English28•6 months ago
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3_tRPRt9x8
- EldritchFeminity ( @EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 46•6 months ago
Hey now, sometimes it’s 3 words. Like antibabypillen.
- Jojo ( @Silentiea@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months ago
English can do lots, like antidisestablishmentarianism.
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 46•6 months ago
The German compound noun thing also works in other Germanic languages like, say, Dutch, Swedish and Old English. You can blame the Normans (i.e. a bunch of snobbish Vikings who, a generation earlier, decided to speak only French) for modern English’s lack of them.
The Fr*nch
- KrokanteBamischijf ( @KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl ) 14•6 months ago
And it leads to a neverending stream of newly invented hype words.
We even have a yearly word of the year tradition, where the organisation behind our most famous dictionary picks one of these newly invented words based on coverage in media.
Last year’s word was “graaiflatie”, a combination between “graaien” (no direct translation, means to grab, but in a greedy way), and “inflatie” (inflation).
- celeste ( @celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•6 months ago
Swedish is a Germanic language tf? Just checked Wikipedia and spparently you’re right
- sunbather ( @sunbather@beehaw.org ) 15•6 months ago
swedish and german have a significantly overlapping vocab and can be pretty fun to compare, one of my favourite examples showcasing the relationship between the languages are the respective words for iron: originally derived from proto-germanic īsarną, proto-norse took the ending turning it into járn, which became the modern järn in swedish, meanwhile old high german went the other way transforming it into īsarn, middle high german īsen, then the contemporary Eisen
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 9•6 months ago
It’s a bit like British and American English taking “N-acetyl-para-aminophenol” and turning it into “paracetamol” and “acetaminophen” respectively.
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 5•6 months ago
North Germanic, descended from Old Norse; there are varying and debatable degrees of mutual intelligibility between it, Danish and Norwegian, to the point that instructions on product packages sold in the three countries are sometimes written as one phrase for all three, with differing words written with slashes, and linguists occasionally lump all three together as “Scandinavian”.
Out of interest, what did you think it was if not Germanic?
- celeste ( @celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•6 months ago
I rhought it was Scandinavian/Norse but never thought deeper than that.
- ProgrammingSocks ( @ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social ) 5•6 months ago
Nordic languages branched off from Germanic languages, so they’re related yea
- KrokanteBamischijf ( @KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl ) 1•6 months ago
Fun fact: The Frisian language (and Dutch by extension) has overlapping origin with both Danish and Swedish.
We can usually grasp a lot of conversational Danish and Swedish because a lot of the words are similar.
- Manucode ( @manucode@feddit.de ) 36•6 months ago
How else would you name a law delegating responsibilities for the supervision of the labelling of beef, other than Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz?
- sexual_tomato ( @sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 28•6 months ago
English does it too, but we use ancient Greek and Latin to do it.
Hydro gen - water maker
Dis aster - bad star
- SpaceCowboy ( @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ) 16•6 months ago
We do it so often we have a term for it: compound words.
I would explain more but I gotta turn off my desktop computer and do some chores like loading the dishwasher and cleaning up the bathroom before I sit down and watch the baseball game this afternoon before my girlfriend comes over.
- mokus ( @mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•6 months ago
Also I have to work overtime at the bookshop because of greedflation
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 5•6 months ago
TIL disaster = bad star, very cool!
- dQw4w9WgXcQ ( @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months ago
Helico pter - spiral wing
- _Gandalf_the_Black_ ( @_Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de ) 28•6 months ago
It’s true. In English we string words together instead of putting them into one word, so there’s not really much difference beyond the odd bit of morphology.
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 24•6 months ago
It’s not even really morphology but orthography. Sure, German has some binding morphemes but the man difference is that English uses spaces
- Hjalmar ( @Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ) 9•6 months ago
It does make a difference though. The long chains of words in English are kinda clumsy compared to the Swedish/German words. In practice this just leads to English using abbreviations more.
- Trashboat ( @Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 9•6 months ago
I dunno, a lot of these German words I see I’d abbreviate the hell outta if I knew how
- Hjalmar ( @Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ) 2•6 months ago
All of the ones here are kinda extreme. Most words are alot shorter
- Pleb ( @pleb_maximus@feddit.de ) 27•6 months ago
No, no. Please continue to be Deutschdazzled.
As a single-language 'merican who only dabbles in a bit of español, I shall never not be dazzled by the Deutsch
- ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃 ( @name_NULL111653@pawb.social ) 10•6 months ago
Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
- Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 26•6 months ago
German works like naming java classes.
TextGeneratorSingeltonFactory
- Miss Brainfarts ( @miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 22•6 months ago
May I present to you, the longest german word where no letter repeats itself:
Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung
- Hjalmar ( @Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ) 20•6 months ago
I love putting words together! I’m Swedish but we do the same thing here. It makes new words easier to understand and is amazing in general. Also, here is a long word
Socialdemokratiskaungdomsförbundets talarstolsupsättarsmössasemblem aka The Social Democratic Youth Association’s pulpit setter’s cap emblem (also pulpit is literally named speakers chair in Swedish)
I wish my Swedish grandma was still alive, I’d have some fun with this XD
- bort ( @bort@sopuli.xyz ) 18•6 months ago
Tja.
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 8•6 months ago
Naja
- germanatlas ( @germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•6 months ago
Also
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 5•6 months ago
Jain
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 9•6 months ago
Donaudampfschiffkapitän
- d2k1 ( @d2k1@feddit.de ) 5•6 months ago
Donaudampfschifffahrtgesellschaftskapitänskajütenfensterschraube.
- SternburgExport ( @SternburgExport@feddit.de ) 7•6 months ago
Doch
- AWildMimicAppears ( @a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•6 months ago
nein
- Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 5•6 months ago
Oohhh
- Napain ( @Napain@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 months ago
Perfektenschlag!