May
24

Dies und das...: Least favourite German words

Time for some awesome-sauce from FuckYeahDeutsch. I personally love gedownloadet, just rolls off the tongue.

fuckyeahdeutsch:

I’ve already done a post on my favourite German words, and reading your replies has been immensely interesting, so I thought, why not a post on my least favourite German words? Well, here we go.

  1. kidnappen
    Do I really need to explain? It sounds terrible, it looks terrible, and the mere thought…

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    some awesome-sauce from FuckYeahDeutsch....personally love gedownloadet,
  5. trijov answered: Ich bin mit dir: “downloaden”. Keine Frage.
  6. kemcgill answered: möchten, but only because people in my German class can’t say it correctly >:O
  7. treibgud answered: Moinsen (wannabe-cool), Highlight (Marketing dumbspeak. There already existed Höhepunkt, Glanzpunkt and Glanzlicht). There are so many…
  8. holodrome answered: “Outsourcen” is on top of my list of Denglish words, as it wraps a merely destructive economic process into a seemingly progressive term.
  9. ichliebdichnicht answered: There’s a shop near me in Augsburg called “Dies und Das” - makes me a little irate every time I walk past!
  10. heartlessdollmi said: Gesundheit seems also to be used quite often XD I was surprised to read it in a english manga XD My least fovourite german word…hm I never really thought about this before XD I mostly dislke words for their meaning, but not for the word itself XD
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