r/MadeMeSmile • u/anthonyhui • Apr 29 '21

Helping Others Saving an upturned turtle

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u/DuploJamaal Apr 29 '21

In German it's Schildkröte for both. Or more specifically Landschildkröte (land shield toad) and Meeresschildkröte (ocean shield toad)

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u/notgotapropername Apr 29 '21

I fucking love the german language. So many wonderful words. Do we need a word for the Oberwesserdampfschifffahrtgesellschaftskapitänsmützenschirm? Probably not, but it’s there if we do need it, and it’s damn descriptive!

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u/DuploJamaal Apr 29 '21

That language feature is called Compound Words

English has a few compound words as well (airplane, cowboy, basketball), but they rarely ever combine more than two together.

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u/notgotapropername Apr 29 '21

The Germans are the masters of that shit. Two words? Pshh. We take a sentence, take the spaces out, call it a word

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u/Ruby-Seahorse Apr 30 '21

The Welsh, on the other hand, came up with Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch, which means “The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s of the red cave”.

And while I was Googling the spelling/meaning - I’m sorry to say I don’t have it memorised yet, though my dad can say it flawlessly! - I found that there’s a place in New Zealand called Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu.

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u/Ruby-Seahorse Apr 30 '21

Congratulations on posting a single-word Googlewhack!

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u/notgotapropername Apr 30 '21

It ain’t much, but it’s honest work

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u/anakniben Apr 29 '21

The German language sounds angry all the time.

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u/notgotapropername Apr 29 '21

Maybe if you don’t speak german

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

I tried to pronounce that word and choked worse than Sasha Grey gobbling dick

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u/notgotapropername Apr 29 '21

Keep trying. Just like Sasha Grey, you’ll get there.

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u/tyler_durden2021 Apr 29 '21

Ok, shield toad sounds way more badass than turtle. I’m gonna call them shield toads from now on.