RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhat's a word you haven't heard used in years?message-squaremessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1194arrow-down16
arrow-up1188arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a word you haven't heard used in years?RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square194fedilink
minus-squarecyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoSo “affordablehousing” then? 😂
minus-squareVii@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoWe actually have a word for that: unauffindbar
minus-squareKonlanx@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-21 year agoYou are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
minus-squareLouisoix@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoSeems like there’s a word for everything in German!
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFor a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it’s the English one that’s smashing two existing words together.
Affordable housing
So “affordablehousing” then? 😂
Looks German
We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar
Doesn’t that mean unfindable?
You are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
Ah gotcha
Seems like there’s a word for everything in German!
There is. That word is “alles”.
For a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it’s the English one that’s smashing two existing words together.