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[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 36 points 1 year ago

I bet there's a language somewhere that sums that whole sentence up in one word.

[-] Barns@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

My bet would be on a European one, potentially German, where it would be 35 letters that look exactly like a cat barfed on the keyboard

[-] Sianna@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago
[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

Kaltdunkeltrauerverzweifelungsvollraum. However, even Germans would not combine all this and say something like ein kalter, dunkler Raum voll Trauer und Verzweiflung.

[-] vojel@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Fight me: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Yes this is one word and it makes sense.

[-] matt4542@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

"Beef labeling monitoring task transfer act"

Excuse me??

[-] vojel@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

I did not ask you to translate it! Now you openended Pandoras Büchse

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Using compound words is just cheating.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If it's just a compound noun it's no fun, because it's just a literal translation of those same words except there's no spaces between the individual words in German

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