• Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
      hexbear
      29
      20 days ago

      Hoch・schul・statistik = high school statistics and Gesetz is related to the English word set.

      Honestly I don't get why Hochschulstatistikgesetz of all words would make one say that German is not a real language. Like, I'm not beyond laughing at the Norwegian words for speedbumps and professionals among other things, nor laughing at the fact that the Dutch for "fucking in the kitchen" is "neuken in de keuken"... But there's nothing immediately funny to me about the word Hochschulstatistikgesetz. Is it just that the word is long? That it has the letter sequence ⟨chsch⟩ in it? I don't get it.

      • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        37
        20 days ago

        neuken in de keuken

        lmao Dutch is fucking hilarious, and if anyone disapproves of me laughing at it, then... we hebben een serieus probleem

        • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
          hexbear
          19
          20 days ago

          neuken in de keuken is fucking hilarious, and so is geef me een klap papa. English is full of dumb funny shit, I'm sure, but that doesn't mean Dutch and German aren't.

      • edge [he/him]
        hexbear
        16
        20 days ago

        Unnecessary compounding of words making them harder to read. It’s basically “Highereducationstatisticsact”.

          • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
            hexbear
            10
            edit-2
            20 days ago

            It’s objectively a loss of information and more difficult to read

            • SoyViking [he/him]
              hexbear
              10
              20 days ago

              It also gives information that these words belong together in a single word

                • SoyViking [he/him]
                  hexbear
                  11
                  20 days ago

                  Petition to change German orthography into that weird American phonetic spelling so the yanks will not be too confused about other languages than American existing:

                  hog-SHOOL sta-TEES-teek gee-SETS

                  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
                    hexbear
                    9
                    20 days ago

                    Almost every language in the world uses breaks and spaces between words. It’s the Germans who are wrong

      • crosswind [they/them]
        hexbear
        14
        20 days ago

        Either keep your compound words to a reasonable length, or get rid of spaces entirely and have one word per paragraph.

      • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
        hexbear
        11
        20 days ago

        It's certainly a real language. It's a scary language, which I think with scary things generally tend to be downplayed. I was scared of the language after reading Mark Twain's anecdote in The Awful German Language

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
          hexbear
          13
          edit-2
          20 days ago

          As I was saying, if "it has long words with sound/letter combinations that monolingual Anglophones find hard to read/pronounce" is the only criterion for "this language is too funny-sounding to be real", then I guess Nuxalk must be absolutely hilarious.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          hexbear
          9
          20 days ago

          Like it or not, German is one of those languages where the spelling of a word actually gives you a very good idea of how it is pronounced.