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[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh Germans do drop parts they don't like. For example, they drop the Gute- from Gutemorgen.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Guten Morgen ist ein Oxymoron!

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

Oxymoron is a funny word. Like a moron, but now improved with active oxygen for stronger cleaning!

[–] needanke@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago

No texactly. I drop the "Wassn scheiß"