@RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 years agoWhat's a word you haven't heard used in years?message-square194arrow-up1193
arrow-up1193message-squareWhat's a word you haven't heard used in years?@RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 years agomessage-square194
minus-square@Konlanx@feddit.delinkfedilink12•edit-22 years agoYou are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
minus-square@Louisoix@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•2 years agoSeems like there’s a word for everything in German!
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years 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.
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.