• EleventhHour
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    712 hours ago

    I wonder if speakers of other languages also find English words kind of ridiculous

    • @EvilBit
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      1210 hours ago

      Gift in German means poison.

      It wouldn’t surprise me if they are on the opposite side of “lol German words are compounded like crazy” and look at us as “lol English has a different word for everything now get me a drink from the cool closet before I put you in the sick house, you shield toad.”

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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      311 hours ago

      Words like comeuppance and conniption? Bunghole? Squeegee? Hoedown? Poppycock?

      English has words I’m sure English speakers find funny/ridiculous.

    • The Assman
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      011 hours ago

      According to google translate this means “lime stuffing” so it kinda just is ridiculous

      • lime!
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        9 hours ago

        according to the Swedish dictionary, a “stuff” is a drill core, or other piece of rock that’s used in lab tests. so “kalkstuff” is a piece of limestone. google translate has no clue in this case.

      • M137
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        18 hours ago

        It’d not actual Swedish, just words related to the product mashed together.