still tickled by what some german way back when decided to call gloves
"fuck are those?"
"they go on your hands, bit like shoes go on your feet"
"I shall call them... fuck it, handshoes"
@troubleMoney what are socks in german bc i feel like that would be more accurate
@pup_hime socken
now you mention it that would have been more appropriate
@troubleMoney thats p boring
anyway handsocken
@pup_hime @troubleMoney I think Handschuh comes from way back when shoes were much less structured than they are now and were made of soft leather, so if you think about it that way, it makes sense
@troubleMoney brb going full "let's replace as much English vocabulary as possible with German style coinings"
@a_breakin_glass that's exactly what we would have ended up with if the upper classes didn't suddenly decide that french and latin was cool
@troubleMoney i mean kimono literally means thing you wear
@troubleMoney Someone: German is such an ugly language!
German: Hand-shoe! Fly-stuff! House-animal!
@witchfynder_finder @troubleMoney It bothers me that "house plant" translates to "Zimmerpflanze", meaning "room plant", so it's not parallel to "Haustier".
Languages are bad about consistency too often ;p
@anke @troubleMoney People are rarely perfectly consistent, why should language be any different? =P
I can only respect a language that shows such a lack of giving a fuck when naming things
"I have invented a wonderful machine that flies through the air! what should we call it?"
"fuck it, flightstuff"
(flugzeug is the german for airplane, it literally translates as flightstuff)