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    Some language translations are great. Like the Thai word for socks literally means "foot bags"
     
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    True Romans know him as “that hippie son of a carpenter”

    I get a lot of looks for my views....
     
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    In German, the word for glove translates as "hand shoe" but I like foot bags better.
     
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    My personal favourite has to go to the initial word they used for "torpedo": schwimmenloudenboomer.
     
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    Never heard that one. Do you have any source?
     
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    I’m studying German, and it all sounds like “bar bar bar”
     
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    That's the many consonants following each other and the rather short vowels.
    You'll get used to it. But especially people whose native language is quite melodic tend to have problems there.
     
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    I am half joking. It does sound much more harsh then English, but it’s still understandable.

    the poorly phrased joke was the Roman and Greek tradition of calling Germanic languages barbarian
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    This was from a schematic that I recall seeing a few years ago, detailing the general layout of a German U-Boat. At some point in WW2, the RCN had captured a few of them intact and pressed them into service, and they determined at the time that it was apparently easier to just teach the submariner crews how to read German rather than translate everything onboard to English.
     
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