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Crocodile that terrorised town for three days turned out to be an inflatable toy (metro.co.uk)
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It’s all been blown out of proportion.

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[-] lena@gregtech.eu 14 points 2 days ago

You Germans have a word for everything

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

there’s a word for that:
Wortfindungsfähigkeit

[-] freeman@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

Its just that you can assemble words together with certain rules, to create compound nouns.

[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

Is there a compound word for typical German efficiency?

[-] freeman@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

No, "Effizienz" is not a particularly complex thing that would need multiple words. The "typical" and "german" part is something germans themselves dont mention.

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