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| Subject: | LOL! I'm also a bad person of German descent! I read a book |
| From: | Wahoo    |
| Date: | Wed, 17-Jul-2024 6:03:53 PM PDT |
| Where: | SoapZone Community Message Board |
| In topic: | ~*~*~Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday Potpourri~*~*~ posted by chloe |
| In reply to: | What?!? You’re not a fan of putting two words together to form a new word?! posted by Kitchop |
a long while ago--Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue (highly recommend, BTW)--that said English is the language with the most "common" words in use, with just around 200,000. German was next at around 150,000...but often they'd put two words together to make a new word. For example, they have the word "rain", and the word "shield"...and they put the words together--"rainshield"--as their word for umbrella. Apparently, they're referred to as compound nouns in German...
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Interesting. My dad’s side of the family is German. I like a lot of these words - Kitchop - 17-Jul-2024 7:02 PM
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I admit "sorrow bacon" made me giggle EOM - Wahoo - 17-Jul-2024 7:56 PM
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Me too. What could possibly be sorrowful about bacon? EOM - ladyday - 17-Jul-2024 11:23 PM
- Exactly! Bacon is love <g> EOM - Wahoo - 18-Jul-2024 7:58 AM
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Me too. What could possibly be sorrowful about bacon? EOM - ladyday - 17-Jul-2024 11:23 PM
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I admit "sorrow bacon" made me giggle EOM - Wahoo - 17-Jul-2024 7:56 PM
