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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Antibabypille - contraception

    Stinktier (stinky animal) - skunk

    Stinkfrucht (smelly fruit) - durian

    Krankenhaus (sick house) - hospital

    Krankenwagen (sick wagon) - ambulance

    Krankenschwester (sick sister) - nurse

    Handschuhe (hand shoe) - glove

    Durchfall (through fall) - diarrhoea

    Regenschirm (rain shield) - Umbrella

    Stachelschwein (‘spikey pig’)= Porcupine

    ‘Pustblume’ (blow flower) = dandelion seed head

    Sauerstoff (sour stuff) - oxygen

    Wasserstoff (water stuff) - hydrogen

    Totenkopf (dead head)💀 - scull



  • This is today’s version of "Eskimos (Inuit, I know, but that’s not how the memes went) have __40 __65 250( insert your number, it won’t be wrong) words for snow. This is for the same reason and is now largely known as wrong.

    The problem is even German people (I live in Germany) also believe that they have a larger more expressive language than (for example) English… When it isn’t true. German has either 5.3 million++ words or 135,000 depending on how you count them. In reality you can endlessly combine words in German together, but it very rarely makes it a “new word”.


  • Dear Germans, When someone had a grandfather who was Turkish that doesn’t make their german born descendants Turkish… They are german.

    Dear brits, The Indian guy who’s grand parents were born in Britain… he’s not “the Indian guy”, he’s brittish.

    Dear French, French is not a skin color. It’s a nationality. A black guy can be French too.

    With contempt

    Immigrant descendents in Europe.

    The thing about people’s roots is it’s complicated, messy, and not only an American problem. More compassion and understanding goes a long ways.