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[–] weker01 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This reminds me of how absurd the naming of walkie-talkie is. You can talkie while you walkie.

As a non native English speaker it took me way too long to actually understand / question the name itself as we use it in German too and I therefore learned the word before I could speak English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

English is a deeply flawed but intensely playful language. It's like the weird kid at the playground who's clearly a mess, but they're always down for whatever.

I took a year in German. It's much prettier than its reputation in pop culture makes it. One of my favourite words is sehnsucht, and I keep trying to get anglophones to steal it.

[–] Timecircleline 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What does sehnsucht mean?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tough one to sum up, but the wiki page does a good job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehnsucht

Sure wish I was better at explaining things...

[–] Timecircleline 2 points 3 days ago

Thank you for sharing! This is why I asked rather than googling- I would have looked at a definition and moved on, rather than falling into that rabbit hole. I appreciate you.