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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 12h ago
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It's the same with German. I had a German friend and every time I wanted to learn and use a cool new German word with him, it was the same word in English.
• u/black-winter- 12h ago “That thing you just said? Us Germans have a word for that, it’s called Thatthingyoujustsaiden” • u/MaxzxaM 7h ago It's a bit shorter than that actually We say: "wortwörtlich" • u/Key-Performance-9021 3h ago Tatsächlich! • u/Math_PB 4h ago Literally : 9 letters Wortwörtlich : 12 letters It's not shorter. Never beating the "most inefficient efficient language" allegations (and I say that as a german speaker). • u/MaxzxaM 4h ago I meant much shorter in relation to "Thatthingyoujustsaiden" • u/yuhmchenAd 3h ago it's literal in german, which is 7 letters. efficient as alaways
“That thing you just said? Us Germans have a word for that, it’s called Thatthingyoujustsaiden”
• u/MaxzxaM 7h ago It's a bit shorter than that actually We say: "wortwörtlich" • u/Key-Performance-9021 3h ago Tatsächlich! • u/Math_PB 4h ago Literally : 9 letters Wortwörtlich : 12 letters It's not shorter. Never beating the "most inefficient efficient language" allegations (and I say that as a german speaker). • u/MaxzxaM 4h ago I meant much shorter in relation to "Thatthingyoujustsaiden" • u/yuhmchenAd 3h ago it's literal in german, which is 7 letters. efficient as alaways
It's a bit shorter than that actually We say: "wortwörtlich"
• u/Key-Performance-9021 3h ago Tatsächlich! • u/Math_PB 4h ago Literally : 9 letters Wortwörtlich : 12 letters It's not shorter. Never beating the "most inefficient efficient language" allegations (and I say that as a german speaker). • u/MaxzxaM 4h ago I meant much shorter in relation to "Thatthingyoujustsaiden" • u/yuhmchenAd 3h ago it's literal in german, which is 7 letters. efficient as alaways
Tatsächlich!
Literally : 9 letters
Wortwörtlich : 12 letters
It's not shorter. Never beating the "most inefficient efficient language" allegations (and I say that as a german speaker).
• u/MaxzxaM 4h ago I meant much shorter in relation to "Thatthingyoujustsaiden" • u/yuhmchenAd 3h ago it's literal in german, which is 7 letters. efficient as alaways
I meant much shorter in relation to "Thatthingyoujustsaiden"
it's literal in german, which is 7 letters. efficient as alaways
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u/dboti9k 12h ago
It's the same with German. I had a German friend and every time I wanted to learn and use a cool new German word with him, it was the same word in English.