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TIL the German word "backpfeifengesicht," which means "a face in need of a punch" or "a punchable face" (Visual example/definition also included) (media.kbin.social)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes once in awhile real ones were posted to TIL as well, but since the vast majority of them were nonsense, that's why they were banned. No one on the mod team was a native german speaker and it just wasn't worth the trouble of figuring out which, if any, were legitimate words. It ended up leading to the rule against translations/definitions/word origins.