Quote from: dks on August 30, 2016, 10:32:45 PMSo you have to be asked personally.... 😀See, someone with a German passport did come along
So you have to be asked personally.... 😀
PS: Please forget about the Oktoberfest. That doesn't have anything to do with real Bavaria any more, but is only some kind of disgusting stereotypical Disneyland for drunkards.
Here's one: I once heard of a German word (which I quickly forgot) which means something like "finding beauty in things that are worn"...
Quote from: Syncop8r on August 31, 2016, 08:57:16 AMHere's one: I once heard of a German word (which I quickly forgot) which means something like "finding beauty in things that are worn"... I get "Suche nach Schönheit in den Dingen, die getragen werden" for that (Google Translate).
Quote from: Tomcat_81 on August 31, 2016, 12:25:23 AMQuote from: ColoSwiss on August 30, 2016, 11:59:27 PMHere's one I could use some help with. Had a couple of years of German is school, and still have a German/English dictionary. However about all I can come up with for this is Special Fund for Trash Removal. Don't know if that's even close.This one is so incredibly German, even though it comes from Switzerland! Your translation hit it quite well, I'd roughly translate it with "Union with the purpose of clearing away the refuse in the area of (the river) Linth"Yeah, neither very well-sounding nor anything like elegant... the German word "Kehricht" for example is so wonderfully antiquated that I doubt anyone from generation pokemon-selfie would understand it. A direct translation for it would be "sweepings", but the broader sense "refuse" seems more at place here. "Zweckverband" as an expression is about as sexy as "supporting stockings" (which, btw, would translate with Stützstrümpfe", another word which illustrates the beautiful sound of the German language and why I prefer to speak Bavarian) and is one of the ugly children created by "Beamtendeutsch", the kind of German used in administrative functions.TomcatVielen Dank!
Quote from: ColoSwiss on August 30, 2016, 11:59:27 PMHere's one I could use some help with. Had a couple of years of German is school, and still have a German/English dictionary. However about all I can come up with for this is Special Fund for Trash Removal. Don't know if that's even close.This one is so incredibly German, even though it comes from Switzerland! Your translation hit it quite well, I'd roughly translate it with "Union with the purpose of clearing away the refuse in the area of (the river) Linth"Yeah, neither very well-sounding nor anything like elegant... the German word "Kehricht" for example is so wonderfully antiquated that I doubt anyone from generation pokemon-selfie would understand it. A direct translation for it would be "sweepings", but the broader sense "refuse" seems more at place here. "Zweckverband" as an expression is about as sexy as "supporting stockings" (which, btw, would translate with Stützstrümpfe", another word which illustrates the beautiful sound of the German language and why I prefer to speak Bavarian) and is one of the ugly children created by "Beamtendeutsch", the kind of German used in administrative functions.Tomcat
Here's one I could use some help with. Had a couple of years of German is school, and still have a German/English dictionary. However about all I can come up with for this is Special Fund for Trash Removal. Don't know if that's even close.
Quote from: kkokkolis on August 31, 2016, 09:28:00 AMQuote from: Syncop8r on August 31, 2016, 08:57:16 AMHere's one: I once heard of a German word (which I quickly forgot) which means something like "finding beauty in things that are worn"... I get "Suche nach Schönheit in den Dingen, die getragen werden" for that (Google Translate).It was definitely a single word.
λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγαοπτερύγων.
It's just a food, the longest word in history for a couple of millenia.Now it's only the third longest.Dziewięćsetdziewięćdziesiątdziewięćmiliardówdziewięćsetdziewięćdziesiątdziewięćmilionówdziewięćsetdziewięćdziesiątdziewięćtysięcydziewięćsetdziewięćdziesięciodziewięcioletniego (Polish) has 3 more letters, while निरन्तरान्धकारित-दिगन्तर-कन्दलदमन्द-सुधारस-बिन्दु-सान्द्रतर-घनाघन-वृन्द-सन्देहकर-स्यन्दमान-मकरन्द-बिन्दु-बन्धुरतर-माकन्द-तरु-कुल-तल्प-कल्प-मृदुल-सिकता-जाल-जटिल-मूल-तल-मरुवक-मिलदलघु-लघु-लय-कलित-रमणीय-पानीय-शालिका-बालिका-करार-विन्द-गलन्तिका-गलदेला-लवङ्ग-पाटल-घनसार-कस्तूरिकातिसौरभ-मेदुर-लघुतर-मधुर-शीतलतर-सलिलधारा-निराकरिष्णु-तदीय-विमल-विलोचन-मयूख-रेखापसारित-पिपासायास-पथिक-लोकान् (Sanscrit) is almost triple.
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