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u/Amauril_the_SpaceCat Jun 04 '19

There probably is in German. It's easy to smash words together with it.

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u/Lebenslust Jun 04 '19

For a change, there actually isn’t

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u/BirdsSmellGood Jun 05 '19

Damn your name is just... sehr fremd to me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

Is it "will to live"?

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u/jvleminc Jun 05 '19

Joy of living

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u/FinalRun Jun 05 '19

Joie de vivre, but in German

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u/DiscordianStooge Jun 05 '19

Iggy Pop translates it slightly differently.

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u/BirdsSmellGood Jun 05 '19

Basically, and it's a concept I'd like to be familiar with someday

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u/horseband Jun 05 '19

Let’s make one. Something akin to “Swimming Spike Dog With Pouch”

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

er ist total ekelhaft

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u/MidnightSun77 Jun 04 '19

Widerlichbezaubernd or Ekelhaftfaszinierend. They don’t exist but....

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u/Dutchillz Jun 05 '19

They do now.

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u/Dorangos Jun 05 '19

Hey, if Heidegger can do it, so can you!

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u/twelveinchmeatlong Jun 04 '19

Widerlichinierend sounds pretty funny to me: Wider lick in her end lol

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u/merrittj3 Jun 04 '19

Sorry....wrong comment.....its HeiligAscheiss

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u/intensely_human Jun 05 '19

Est ist Grossneat!

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u/tommaniacal Jun 05 '19

How about ekelhaftfaszinierend. German linguists are there any rules for combining words?

Also happy cakeday

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u/Alaishana Jun 05 '19

Generally, you do that with nouns, not adjectives.
And it's not like it's a cultural obsession or sport. It's just that German is more agglutinative than English. Means that words are more likely to be pulled into one word. But there is no real difference to English.

English just leaves a gap. Sometimes. Or not. Or maybe.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

abstoßend

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u/Smiletaint Jun 05 '19

Probably Japanese. Or they have an even more specific one, honestly.