• UNY0N@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

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