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If anyone wants to know, "Beweglichertorpfostenkrieg" is literally just "moving goal posts war" disguised as a german compound word.

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kbin.social

It's actually quite easy to correct, so why not mention it?

Make that "moving goal post war" a "goal post movement war" and now it's all nouns and valid to compound them.

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German...Grammer...Nazi...

Sir, this is a Noncredible Wendy's, not a Highly Credible Outback Steakhouse.

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This is wrong. That would describe a certain type of war, but specify that the war is movable.

I think the "Torpfostverschiebekrieg" mentioned in another comment would be the best solution.

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lemmy.ml

But surely wouldn't that imply the existence of such thing as a 'goal post war'? Because the term is meant to mean '(moving goal post) (war)', and not '(moving) (goal post war)'

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On the other hand in Finnish that's can be one word: maalitolpansiirtosota. No sense implied.

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Gorkreply

Hmm they can try using that as the new Паляниця (Palanitsya).

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„Torpfostenbewegungskrieg“ would be correct. I‘d prefer „Torpfostverschiebekrieg“ though.

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lemmy.world

Putin after the war: „And with that, I declare our special operation to lower our male population a great success!“

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lemm.ee

Bro your speech mark fell off and it’s at the bottom of the word now ._.

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lemm.ee

Jesus Christ you can't just go around calling people that

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lemmy.world

It's 5th generation warfare because it takes 5 generations to recover from it

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Huh, I just thought it was an autocorrect of "5th grade"

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Putin is that kid on the playground that kept announcing new rules every time he was losing.

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Geirkztlib

I knew those fuckers were at it again smh

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lemmy.world

P.S For those who don't know, "Ukrop" is slur for "ukrainian" which also means "dill" (like the herb)

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lemmynsfw.com

As a Richmond VA native, we had a grocery store chain called Ukrops. I didn't realize it was insult in Ukraine.

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