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EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gift in German means poison.

  It wouldn’t surprise me if they are on the opposite side of “lol German words are compounded like crazy” and look at us as “lol English has a different word for everything now get me a drink from the cool closet before I put you in the sick house, you shield toad.”

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok, “shield toad”?

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    • ahornsirup@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Turtle. Or tortoise. Same word for both in German.

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      • Vintor@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, we do distinguish between land shield toads and water shield toads.

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      • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Marvelous.

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• spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Words like comeuppance and conniption? Bunghole? Squeegee? Hoedown? Poppycock?

  English has words I’m sure English speakers find funny/ridiculous.

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• Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  According to google translate this means “lime stuffing” so it kinda just is ridiculous

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    a “stuff” is a drill core, or other piece of rock that’s used in lab tests. so “kalkstuff” is a piece of limestone.

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’d not actual Swedish, just words related to the product mashed together.

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