The Picard Maneuver to Microblog MemesEnglish • 6 months agoYou can't just throw that out there...imagemessage-square20arrow-up1296arrow-down18
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•6 months agoIn German, those professions actually have different names. The furniture maker is a Schreiner or Tischler (lit. “tablerer”), while the builder is called Zimmermann (lit. “room man”). The German bible correctly identifies Jesus as a Zimmermann.
minus-square@mynameisigglepigglelinkEnglish6•6 months agoOh so that’s what that Nina Simone song was about
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months ago room man German is fucking hilarious if you don’t speak it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoI lost my shit when I heard the most formal, scientific way of saying “sex” in German is “geschlechtsverkehr” or genital traffic. It took me years to realize that “sexual intercourse” is essentially the same thing.
In German, those professions actually have different names. The furniture maker is a Schreiner or Tischler (lit. “tablerer”), while the builder is called Zimmermann (lit. “room man”).
The German bible correctly identifies Jesus as a Zimmermann.
Oh so that’s what that Nina Simone song was about
German is fucking hilarious if you don’t speak it.
I lost my shit when I heard the most formal, scientific way of saying “sex” in German is “geschlechtsverkehr” or genital traffic.
It took me years to realize that “sexual intercourse” is essentially the same thing.