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submitted 2 months ago by Codpiece@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk

It’s all been blown out of proportion.

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[-] freeman@feddit.org 26 points 2 months ago

In german we call this a: "Sommerlochschlagzeile"

A "summer hole news headline". As it is normal that in the summertime, typically during the summer holidays, people are in their vacations, less happens in society and politics. And also the journalists are away more often, so more "nothingburgers" get made big by the media, who have to print something to fill their newspaper

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

You Germans have a word for everything

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

there’s a word for that:
Wortfindungsfähigkeit

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

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

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

Is there a compound word for typical German efficiency?

[-] freeman@feddit.org 2 points 2 months 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.

[-] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

It’s the panther all over again haha

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