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gigachadreply
feddit.de

It's pretty close to how you would pronounce that in German if you read it for the first time

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Correction: "Vrots-waff". Ł, ł sounds the same as W, like in "why".

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lemmy.world

Low effort.

At least pick some real sounding ones, like "Przemysław Mądrzykowski", or something...

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wazreply

Party-disappearance-feelings? Or “Feeling of party fading” Man the Germans have a word for everything! But seriously any real words compounded together that make anything near to sense, is a word in German.

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jarfilreply
lemmy.world

"Feierverschwindungsgefühl"

Technically, that is a word in German, it means "feeling of celebration enshrinkening". Might not be very popular, but it follows the rules 😉

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jarfilreply
lemmy.world

Well, it would come from "ver- schwind -en -ung", so the closest translation to English might be something like "for-dwindling"... but the English "for-" seems to have lost some of the versatility of the German "ver-", so the closest modern word that comes to mind is using the "shrink" meaning of "schwinden", and translate as "enshrinkening". Ultimately they'd all be synonyms.

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Schmuppesreply
lemmy.world

No matter how much you try to chop the word into pieces, dude: "Verschwinden" translates to "to vanish".

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Meanwhile, "to vanish" has several synonyms, and it just happens some can be built following almost the same composition rules.

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And the optometrist asked him if he could read the last line of the eye chart, to which he replied “Read it? That’s my wife’s maiden name”

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lemmy.world

Once I met a Slovak guy with clearly polish surname, so I asked him wether he had polish ancestors. He genuinely didn't get why would I think something like that...

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As a west Slav (Moravian) myself, I'm usually able to distinguish these two, especially in written form. The meme shows the characteristics of polish quite realistically.

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Sir, would you like a side to vowels to go with that consonant clusters?

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jarfilreply
lemmy.world

W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie

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How I read it: Стой с ... ногами

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The first words out of my new coworker's mouth were about Robert Lewandowsky.

Never in doubt.

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