@RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 11 months agoWhat's a word you haven't heard used in years?message-square196fedilinkarrow-up1163
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minus-square@Konlanx@feddit.delinkfedilink12•edit-211 months agoYou are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
minus-square@Louisoix@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•11 months agoSeems like there’s a word for everything in German!
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoFor a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it’s the English one that’s smashing two existing words together.
Affordable housing
So “affordablehousing” then? 😂
Looks German
We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar
Doesn’t that mean unfindable?
You are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
Ah gotcha
Seems like there’s a word for everything in German!
There is. That word is “alles”.
For a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it’s the English one that’s smashing two existing words together.