The speed bag looking thing

[fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk]

That's called a "clacker" where I come from.

[indibrony@lemmy.world]

Reminds me of the Flammenwerfer!

[cenotaph@mander.xyz]

So it's a girl house

[stevedice@sh.itjust.works]

So it's a girl house.

[agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works]

Must've been confusing to the Romans

[chuckleslord@lemmy.world]

[brahvim@lemmy.kde.social]

It's the tongue speaking.

[papalonian@lemmy.world]

That was my first guess, but when I sounded out the words as spelled it didn't sound very... tongue-y. Maybe I'm not hearing it right.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

So it's a girl house

[spezi@feddit.org]

It’s literally a 1:1 translation of Flamethrower.

There are much better examples for long German words beeing short in English like

Toy = Spielzeug

Mall = Einkaufszentrum

Sale = Schlussverkauf

Matchbox = Streichholzschachtel

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

Delores?

[vincent@feddit.nl]

I don't think that was intended as an example of a long German word being short in English. Rather, it was an example of the meaning of a word being clear from the word itself.

[vincent@feddit.nl]

I want you to touch that lil' dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat

[garbagebagel@lemmy.world]

I was talking to my hairdresser once and accidentally called my tonsils testicles so maybe uvula can be vulva now to make it all even

[wabafee@lemmy.world]

Monster house reference I think.

[hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl]

For me it was both. The descriptive nature of words on the one hand and the word length which often comes with it on the other.

Eichhörnchenschwanz is a nice example (it also works with dialects)

[vincent@feddit.nl]

Eekhoorntjesstaart! (And vlammenwerper of course.)

[hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl]

Google insists that I must have mistyped eekhoorntjestaart. Who am I to argue? ‍️

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

I also am pavlov'd to remember this line every time, great minds think alike. Or the superior German proverb, two fools one thought

[sapientsloth@feddit.org]

Great minds think alike is only half the proverb. The other one is: , but fools rarely differ. Somewhat similar to the german one.