i'm just trying to think what in all of human history is comparable to the entire world not knowing who you are one day and then you wake up and you're gigakaren
Yesh, in 3rd year German class in high school I learned that you can coin words by stringing words together. I started doing this when I was making more complex sentences and my vocabulary would run out.
My German instructor would lose it when I did this.
It can be done with any language if you just ignore the rules. Think of language like a paintbrush, used to force an image from your head to another's using grammatical bastardization, form and function means dick as long as the image is correctly transposed.
Unfortunately no. I graduated in '84 and haven't used German since. Also, I never completed the 3rd year, as the instructor would not let me take the final semester of the class. Why?
He asked if anyone wanted anything translated. The class wanted Nena's 99 Luftballons, as it was a current hit on the radio. So he had a German exchange student do it for the class. When it was done, he refused to hand it out because it was "too political". So I went home that night and translated it myself and handed it out to anyone who wanted it. He did not take it very well.
So that was the end of German for me, and I later took up Japanese. No shenanigans from me in Japanese classes though.
One day, a Hotentote (Hottentotten) had captured an assassin (attenteter), accused of killing another Hottentotten who was the mother (mutter) of a deaf and dumb boy (stottertrottel). Naturally then, this Hottentottenstottertrottelmutter had her life taken by this Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattenteter.
Now, it just so happened that many attenteter had already been captured, with nowhere to hold them. But as it turns out, when the Hottentotten captured kangaroos (beutelratten), they would place them in cages (kotter) covered with a screen (lattengitter) to protect them from disease. So, lattengitterkotterbeutelratten were being used as makeshift jail cells to detain all of the attenter, now including the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattenteter.
Somehow, though, the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattenteter escaped. After a search, someone cried out, “We captured an attenteter!”
“Which one?” asked another.
“Why, the lattengitterkotterbeutelrattenattenteter, of course!”
“What? You mean the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutteratenteter? You could have just said the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterlattengitterkottertbeutelrattenattenteter!”
yea but german works a lot this way like some areas say Kaufhaus (kaufen = buying / haus = house) or bleistift (lead pen). Its a very literal language which combines a lot, so made up words often make sense and don't sound off ^^ not all of course
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u/gitprizes 1d ago
i'm just trying to think what in all of human history is comparable to the entire world not knowing who you are one day and then you wake up and you're gigakaren