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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

German is wild. Sometimes its like the spacebar was never invented and you get such beauties as Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaugabenübertragungsgesetz

[–] Tenoteve@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With the missing f it's now a law about the transfer of talents of meadows used for the supervision of the labeling of beef.

I'm not sure why they're supervising that on a meadow but the meadow is clearly very talented.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago
[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

auFgaben

Scheisse!

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

After the invention of the spacebar, it took another three hundred years to invent the period.

https://www.matthiasbrinkmann.de/wordpress/2016/07/what-is-the-longest-sentence-in-kant/

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

But why separate the parts if it is one word

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Some languages don't even have spaces. Writing systems are irrelevant formality and not exceptional at all. I prefer the lack of space for it clearly shows that that's a compound word