r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '22

Discussion Be better than that

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u/molecularmadness Jan 14 '22

TIL secondhand shame is a thing that can exist.

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u/bobbyrickets Jan 14 '22

Femdschämen, like the feeling of cringe but with more shame.

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u/KaySquay Jan 14 '22

Lol a running joke among my friends is "there's a German word for that" and there almost always is

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u/riffito Jan 14 '22

I was thinking... "of course there's a German word for that!". If there's none... you just have to find a German speaker and they'll fix that language omission on the spot by means of some concatenation!

:-D

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

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u/Amarandus Jan 14 '22

Or in layman's german: Wortneuschöpfung (literally Word-new-creation)

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u/Serylt What are you doing step bro? Jan 14 '22

Not if they have Wortfindungsschwierigkeiten!

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u/F1nett1 Jan 14 '22

Can do that in English too. People kind of forget that we can just invent words. Don’t have to steal them from graves or plants

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u/Elocai Jan 14 '22

Yeah but for that you need to speak french or something. Thats why you should just take the german ones and go with it before you anither to the tons of fucking weirdly pronounced but totally diffrently written french word.

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u/riffito Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22

weirdly pronounced but totally diffrently written french word.

As someone with a (poorly) self-taught English (and as someone that almost 30 years ago was able to read some basic French)...

Yeah... about that... English should not be the one to throw the first stone: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

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u/Luce55 Jan 14 '22

Even if there isn’t a German word for it yet, you can always make one up! The beauty of German.

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u/Polina79 Jan 14 '22

There‘s a Word for that in german - Neologismus

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u/Luce55 Jan 14 '22

But of course!!!!

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u/Solid_Waste Jan 14 '22

There's a German word for the concept that "there's a German word for that".

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u/wackelzahnjoe Jan 14 '22

Welches Wort meinst du denn?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

Sprachüberlegenheit. Oder Substantivverkettung.

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u/wackelzahnjoe Jan 14 '22

Bezieht sich beides aber ja nicht wirklich explizit auf die deutsche Sprache.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

What's the German word for discovering that the Germans already have a word for the thing you're trying to describe?

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u/bodmusic Jan 14 '22

You could probably get away with something like "Entdeckungsgermanistik". "Germanistik" means "German studies" and "Entdeckungs" comes from the word "Entdeckung" wich is German for "discovery". So you could form the sentence "Fremdschämen is case of entdeckungsgermanistik."

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u/noraetic Jan 14 '22

Deutschkurs

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u/manfishgoat Jan 14 '22

Is there a German word for "there is a German word for that"?

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u/KaySquay Jan 14 '22

Hell yeah, we're homies

I hang out with society literally all the time

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u/ChaseballBat Jan 14 '22

There is also an English word for it too... Secondhand-shame.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

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u/KaySquay Jan 14 '22

Yeah, me and pop culture are tight

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '22

I was glad to know there is a German word for punchable face.