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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The German language is like legos. You can just slap words together to make new ones.

Like glove. It's Handschuh in German, which id hand-shoe. The language is full of words like this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Such a shame that the German for shoe isn't foot-glove.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

To prevent recursion obviously. It's like you have never languaged in your life.