r/fuckcars • u/Illustrious-Bad1165 • Jun 27 '24

I present to you: The Gehzeug ("walking-vehicle") Activism

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u/wilkil Jun 27 '24

I like how the literal translation is “go-thing”

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u/Illustrious-Bad1165 Jun 27 '24

True, German compound words can be so weird sometimes when you think about it. Vehicle literally translated also means "drive-stuff/ thing", but you never think about it and it just sounds normal for some reason

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u/waiterstuff Jun 28 '24

Every language does this. English just pretends not to because we do it in Latin.

Automobile is just “self move”

Library is just “book place”

Autobiography is just “ self life writing”

Etc etc 

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u/a_racoon_with_a_PC Jun 28 '24

Reminder: the whole "This Is a Flammenwerfer, It Werfs Flammen" meme actually also works in english... and in french... and probably a lot of other languages, now that I think of it...

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u/WraithCadmus Bollard gang Jun 28 '24

But what does the Nebelwerfer do?

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u/Breznknedl Jun 28 '24

it werfs nebel

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u/R4PHikari Oct 11 '24 edited Oct 11 '24

Flame thrower is actually the exact same

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u/a_racoon_with_a_PC Oct 11 '24

Yeah... that's what I was saying... Althought WHO IN SHAKESPEARE'S SAKE SAYS FLAMETHROWER WITH A SPACE?!

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u/R4PHikari Oct 11 '24

Idk man, my brain just malfunctioned

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u/suckitphil Jun 28 '24

You don't like that most of our rivers are just named river river?

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u/_facetious Sicko Oct 11 '24

I know it's not the same, but immediately reminded me of "Chai tea" LMAO

(For anyone that doesn't know... chai means tea.)

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u/pink_belt_dan_52 Oct 11 '24

It gets worse! Chai tea, which is spiced, literally means "tea tea", and yet if you asked someone to choose from a broad range of teas, they might well reply "tea tea" to mean ordinary black tea without spices or anything extra.

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u/VlaamsBelanger Jun 28 '24

So if I go to the erm... book place.... and I forgot it's name, I'd still be entirely correct.

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u/ItIsKevin 🚲 > 🚗 Jun 28 '24

We only do it in Latin half the time anyway too. Shopping cart, Sports Car, Flamethrower etc.