• Atlusb
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    What’s the word for something that would be funny if it wasn’t real.

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        Got to hand it to the German language. I don’t know if your joking or its a real expression

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          It’s a joke. That’s just the translation of the phrase run together as one word.

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              Compound words are very common in German. Some made their way over to English.

              Kindergarten = children garden

              Zeitgeist = time ghost

              Poltergeist = noisy ghost

              Wanderlust = desire to roam or hike

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                We also have compound words in English, like breakfast, mailbox, ballpoint, catfish, headache, and storefront. We just tend to keep them short and not start mashing compound words together since we have adjectives to differentiate things

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              They usually cram a bunch of nouns and verbs together to make words and skip the other stuff.

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    2 years ago

    Unless it’s all out war, RFKjr will contribute to the most deaths.

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    Bret “the boof” kavinaugh did the beer one already.