Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?

  • @JASN_DE
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    810 months ago

    The first one works, the second doesn’t. You cannot simply put any words together.

    • @rdyoung
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      810 months ago

      Maybe YOU can’t.

    • SanguinePar
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      10 months ago

      Well, not with that attitude… ;-)

      Nah, fair enough - as I said, I can’t speak German, so was just mucking about trying to get something that might be plausible. Thanks for clarifying.