Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?
Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?
um = around
die Welt = world
die Umwelt = environment
ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person
der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter
-ung = -ing
die Vermüllung = littering
ver- = see before
zweifeln = to doubt
-ung = see before
die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation
die Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung = …
This is a german compound on the spot master class and I am LIVING
This is one of the reasons why I used to love studying German. I hope to go back to it some day…
THIS IS WHY GERMANS CHEAT ON THE WORD LIMIT AT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES
Ooooooh! THIS is why we are not allowed to write our exams in German at international universities. Now I understand!
This is why German universities have a character limit on papers instead of a word limit!
meteor garden uses like three different songs but i’ll be damned if i’m not reacting like it’s the first time i’ve ever heard ‘river’ or ‘say something’
