@RealWrastling to Ask Lemmy • 2 years agoWhat's a word you haven't heard used in years?message-square193arrow-up1196arrow-down16
arrow-up1190arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a word you haven't heard used in years?@RealWrastling to Ask Lemmy • 2 years agomessage-square193
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•edit-22 years agoYou are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoSeems like there’s a word for everything in German!
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish1•2 years agoFor a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it’s the English one that’s smashing two existing words together.
Affordable housing
So “affordablehousing” then? 😂
Looks German
We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar
Doesn’t that mean unfindable?
You are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
Ah gotcha
Seems like there’s a word for everything in German!
There is. That word is “alles”.
For a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it’s the English one that’s smashing two existing words together.