If German was English
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Me laughing at germans for calling hospitals "sick houses".
Me realizing hospitals are called "hurty places" in my native language.
It's sick house for some other languages too.
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There is a form of English called Anglish which tries to remove all non-germanic words, I think some examples are wordbook for dictionary, becleft for atom, sourstuff for oxygen and birdlore for orinthology
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One Word you mentioned showed nicely what you missed here: Plain
Originally it was called an aeroplane. This could be translated with "flat thing in the air". Which is exactly as ridiculous as your other examples in German. The difference is that Germans don't mind complicated long words where English does so they just drop the part they don't like.
Oh Germans do drop parts they don't like. For example, they drop the Gute- from Gutemorgen.
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the thing about compound words is that they become a new word and people usually don't think about them by breaking them up so they don't sound ridiculous. if another language has a dedicated word for it, comparing them with the direct translation of the broken up compound word makes a funny comparison.
if you'd like to break up some English compound words to see how they might sound weird or basic in other languages here are some examples:
- arm chair
- arm pit
- blue print
- cup cake
- dead line
- eye lash
- fire fighter
- fire man
- fire works
- home sick
- horse shoe
- lip stick
- make up
- news paper
- pass word
- pine apple
- pot hole
- work place
Let's see some of them are their own words in our language. Blueprint is similar with it being combined from 2 words. Firework (fire thrower) and homesick (home sad) and newspaper (time write) are in the same boat. Pothole and workplace are 2 word phrases however. Road hole and working place.
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At first I thought that in the last pannel the robot gives the child 'soup for my family'
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the thing about compound words is that they become a new word and people usually don't think about them by breaking them up so they don't sound ridiculous. if another language has a dedicated word for it, comparing them with the direct translation of the broken up compound word makes a funny comparison.
if you'd like to break up some English compound words to see how they might sound weird or basic in other languages here are some examples:
- arm chair
- arm pit
- blue print
- cup cake
- dead line
- eye lash
- fire fighter
- fire man
- fire works
- home sick
- horse shoe
- lip stick
- make up
- news paper
- pass word
- pine apple
- pot hole
- work place
hedge hog
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Oh Germans do drop parts they don't like. For example, they drop the Gute- from Gutemorgen.
Guten Morgen ist ein Oxymoron!
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Oh Germans do drop parts they don't like. For example, they drop the Gute- from Gutemorgen.
No texactly. I drop the "Wassn scheiß"
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Me laughing at germans for calling hospitals "sick houses".
Me realizing hospitals are called "hurty places" in my native language.
It's not a sick house. It's a house for sick people.
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Theres one big difference between German and English. German allows you to just take multiple words and pack them into one word. This is a
bugfeature English does not have(or at least not to this extend). That's also the reason why its sometimes very hard to translate some gean words because you have to split them up and then translate them individually. -
I think every language probably sounds silly if transliterated into another language
You’ve clearly never heard of Torpenhow Hill, which translating all to English, means Hill Hill Hill Hill.
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Agreed. Stoff would be the German for stuff. The Germans had a rocket propelled interceptor plane called the Komet, and its two parts of fuel were called C-Stoff and Z-Stoff.
I imagine the military looking at the names for the things and going “yeah, we need to dumb it down for our grunts.”
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No german would ever talk like that. Correct would be "Sie dürfen keine Feuerzeuge mit ins Flugzeug nehmen" (You are not allowed to bring lighters into the aircraft).
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I'mma be honest, English has no business making fun of any other language.
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Guten Morgen ist ein Oxymoron!
Oxymoron is a funny word. Like a moron, but now improved with active oxygen for stronger cleaning!
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I'mma be honest, English has no business making fun of any other language.
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a language would sound the same when transliterated to another language
Eh, not totally. Some languages have phonemes that are completely absent in other languages, and some phonemes (especially vowels, though sometimes consonants, eg: "r") are different enough that a transliteration can never do them justice. Although, I guess transliterating into the international phonetic alphabet would do the trick...
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My favourite stop on the London Underground is Knightsbridge - 6 consecutive consonants.
I once saw on an italian restaurant menu the word Taramasalata. I am not sure why but it was very amusing to me that every second letter was 'a'
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Well stuff is literally Stoff, so...
