Post ARco4MCHw8IXV46mv2 by ericalaeta@ruhr.social
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(DIR) Post #AREEfeteaSyp5naxOq by jensclasen@mastodon.social
2023-01-02T08:58:43Z
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The German language has quite a few animalistic verbs:fuchsen ("to fox") = to annoyhechten ("to pike") = to divereihern ("to heron") = to pukedackeln ("to dachshund") = to walk slowlyaalen ("to eel") = to baskvögeln ("to bird") = to have sexeinigeln ("to hedgehog in") = to curl uphamstern ("to hamster") = to hoardschlängeln ("to snake") = to wrigglestieren ("to bull") = to goggleunken ("to toad") = to gripe, augur doomtigern ("to tiger") - to walk tigerishlyAnimaljoy our language!
(DIR) Post #AREMr7NFqepOETPqYi by equal@aus.social
2023-01-02T10:56:33Z
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@jensclasen gott damn how is German such a cool language? I feel like English is its mutated alter ego but with less structure
(DIR) Post #AREMrHBZMxQGf81ejY by heluecht@pirati.ca
2023-01-02T11:11:06Z
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From my point of view I really like the English language. There is even some stuff that I can express in English but I struggle to find appropriate German words (and I'm a native German speaker)I'm watching a lot of UK shows (Taskmaster, QI, I Literally Just Told You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Only Connect, Richard Osman's House of Games, ...) and I really enjoy the language.
(DIR) Post #ARFQaFwzIoNCspIxyi by equal@aus.social
2023-01-02T22:59:44Z
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@jensclasen @heluecht oh you’d probably get a good laugh out of Australian TV then. We butcher the language as an art form here
(DIR) Post #ARFQaGR7UmTaOHP1we by heluecht@pirati.ca
2023-01-02T23:26:50Z
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Can you recommend some shows that are comparable to the ones I like to watch?
(DIR) Post #ARcni3fY8uwxfKA81I by fiee@literatur.social
2023-01-02T09:16:52Z
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@jensclasen mausen ("to mouse") = to steal, to pilfer, to catch micemopsen ("to pug") = to steal, to swiperentieren ("to reindeer" 😜 ) = to be profitablefliegen ("to fly") = to fly 🤷ADDIT:krähen ("to crow") = to caw, to crowfischen ("to fish") = to fish (meanings like in English)karnickeln ("to rabbit") = to eagerly procreate(herum)hühnern ("to hen around", Swiss) = to run around headlessly, to fornicate
(DIR) Post #ARcni5c4unMTh8YNt2 by fiee@literatur.social
2023-01-02T09:57:40Z
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@jensclasen sauen ("to sow") = to speed / but: sich einsauen = to dirty yourselfferkeln ("to piglet") = to farrow, to dirty (sth./yours.), also: sex-play between childrenschweinigeln ("to pig-hedgehog") = to dirty sth., to have sexausfuchsen ("to fox out") = to find out, to be cunning/craftybocken ("to buck") = to buck (to kick), to sulk
(DIR) Post #ARco4LfJuhvVqogSX2 by danjac@masto.ai
2023-01-02T09:37:38Z
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@jensclasen interestingly Finnish verb "ketuttaa" also means to annoy, from "kettu" meaning fox, and there is also hamstrata "to hoard".
(DIR) Post #ARco4MCHw8IXV46mv2 by ericalaeta@ruhr.social
2023-01-02T17:34:22Z
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@danjac @jensclasen so the hamster stands for hoarding in German, Polish and Finnish. There might be more. 😄