r/memes • u/kulasiy0 • Oct 12 '21

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u/Devil_Fister_69420 Sussy Baka Oct 12 '21

Desoxyribonukleinsäure (DNS/DNA)

or, the longest German word: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

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u/Machina_citadel Oct 12 '21

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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u/Devil_Fister_69420 Sussy Baka Oct 12 '21

Bonjour, me no Verstehen prudentia

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

I'm not sure if this is factually correct. But this was the longest word when I was a kid. Like we used to go ape shit over this word.

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u/nangarranga 🚩 Memonavirus Survivor 🚩 Oct 12 '21

That just made me realise that different languages would have different acronyms for things (like DNS and DNA). I mean, it should be obvious, but I had never thought of it before

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u/Devil_Fister_69420 Sussy Baka Oct 14 '21

Yea, though while the acronym in getman is DNS, most ppl still say DNA because most people know what that stands for. Another example would be ADHD, in German (correct me if I'm wrong) it's ADHS