Well, "schmettern" (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. "Schmetterling" comes from the old Slavic "Schmetten", meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from "schmettern", which is a word still in use.
The "schmett" makes me think of the mess that's left if you squish one.
EDIT: Curious about the etymology of the German word, and the "schmett" part means "cream," which is similar to the "butter" part we use in English. The closest word an English speaker might recognize is probably the Yiddish "schmir."
It's basically an insider from a German meme community here on lemmy. The community is called ich_iel (a translation of me_irl) and people use bad literal translations from English as a joke and call it Zangendeutsch. Butterfliege is a literal translation of butterfly but not the real translation.
Someone once told me to that words for things that are not traded across linguistic borders exhibit more linguistic diversity (as in, neighbouring countries use completely different words that share no common etymological roots etc.). Butterfly is one key example.
A schmetterling is the approximate amount of shit one spackles into the bowl of the toilet after a particularly fibrous day. It's not so much that it clogs the plumbing or anything, but it certainly leaves a schmetterling of evidence behind for the next man to attempt to knock loose with his stream.
Italian not missing a beat in making things sound like pasta.
Wait that's what bowtie pasta is named after isn't it
Should be butterfly pasta! We've been robbed!
In Italian, butterfly, bowtie and the kind of pasta are all called "farfalla". Which has come first, though?
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
mfer nationalised the comments section just like they did the swedish nuclear power plants
Germans nationalized Swedish power plants? TIL
yeah, Uniper is a major stakeholder in the Oskarshamn and Forsmark power plants, and it was absorbed into the German state in 2022.
𝖂𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖔𝖘
Non ! Tokebakicitte !
Ve vill spread and multiply! No aisle can stop us!
Ok but Schmetterling doesn’t even sound worse. Just picture it in a not angry German accent
If anything it's a good exemple of a nice German word
Well, "schmettern" (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. "Schmetterling" comes from the old Slavic "Schmetten", meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from "schmettern", which is a word still in use.
There's too many consonants
But only the "TT" sound harsh, which is the same as butterfly, which I'd argue sounds harsher overall.
Good point. They even have the same amount of number of syllables.
Also, Butterfly sounds too much like Butt-fly
Thanks Sauerkraut, I thought so too.
The "schmett" makes me think of the mess that's left if you squish one.
EDIT: Curious about the etymology of the German word, and the "schmett" part means "cream," which is similar to the "butter" part we use in English. The closest word an English speaker might recognize is probably the Yiddish "schmir."
Zangendeutsch: Butterfliege
What is zangendeutsch? Google isn't giving me much in the way of English answers
It's basically an insider from a German meme community here on lemmy. The community is called ich_iel (a translation of me_irl) and people use bad literal translations from English as a joke and call it Zangendeutsch. Butterfliege is a literal translation of butterfly but not the real translation.
I wish I spoke German. That's exactly my type of humor. Lol
It’s never too late to learn. Just don’t use the ich_iel community as study material or you’ll end up speaking a very strange kind of German.
I mean, it'd have to go better than my attempts at learning Spanish. Lol. 5 new years resolutions in a row!
Tja
I said Schmierkampagne in real life yesterday.
I’m a native English speaker and Zangendeutsch is ruining me.
That's funny, in Brazilian Portuguese 'mariposa' means 'moth', and the word for 'butterfly' is 'borboleta'. TDIL.
Lol sounds like medieval siege engine name
TOOL was the first group of people who proved to me that innocuous german words can be made to sound like a thundering political speech filled with evil intent when in reality it's just a cake (cookie?) recipe with no eggs.
UND KEINE EIER!
Die eier von Satan literally means Satan's eggs. It's a recipe for round cookies with hash. And no eggs.
Can't unhear the guy's accent 😂
Papillon in French
Sommerfugl (bird of summer) in Danish :)
C'est magnifique.
And Pillangó in Hungarian. I love both words.
This image is so ancient it doesn't use flags emoji.
And still uses the old meme faces.
Nor should they
Butterfly is a terrible name
And fish should be flowers.
Someone once told me to that words for things that are not traded across linguistic borders exhibit more linguistic diversity (as in, neighbouring countries use completely different words that share no common etymological roots etc.). Butterfly is one key example.
ผีเสื้อ in Thai translates to “shirt ghost” 🤷 it sounds very similar to the tone-deaf as “tiger ghost” which is certainly a cooler name, but nope.
Sounds like describing a moth. Are they maybe found more often than butterflies in Thailand?
We used to call then flutterbys definitely trolling
Afrikaans: skoenlapper, which translates to shoe licker.
Ancient meme. Handle with caution
Plus don't pronounce 'caution' so ruff.
Papalotl in Nahuatl.
Mariposa gang
A schmetterling is the approximate amount of shit one spackles into the bowl of the toilet after a particularly fibrous day. It's not so much that it clogs the plumbing or anything, but it certainly leaves a schmetterling of evidence behind for the next man to attempt to knock loose with his stream.
A very beautiful word.
蝶々 ちょうちょう chouchou in japanese (although technically the first chou means the same thing; I'm not sure if there is a real difference)
SCHMETTERLING!!!
Still funny since 2010s
Yep, memory leak....
This shit is ignorant as fuck.
I go fsck myself, have a nice day
Please go fuck thx
🤨 you will probably want to ask your tutor for your money back.
"Shmatterling" is the closest sounding english approximation.
Zerschmetterling!
Was hast du hier verloren? Zurück zu ich_iel aber hop hop.
Ei, Ei!
German spy!!
Psst, the Angelsachsen are reading!
Achtung, Feind hört mit
"Chmétteurlïnke" pour l'approximation française.
Basically yes but SCH is like SH. Also ER is often a single vowel somewhere close to U in "but".
Sch, it starts with sch. You German bad