Ok but Schmetterling doesn’t even sound worse. Just picture it in a not angry German accent
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If anything it's a good exemple of a nice German word
Well, "schmettern" (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. "Schmetterling" comes from the old Slavic "Schmetten", meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from "schmettern", which is a word still in use.
The "schmett" makes me think of the mess that's left if you squish one.
EDIT: Curious about the etymology of the German word, and the "schmett" part means "cream," which is similar to the "butter" part we use in English. The closest word an English speaker might recognize is probably the Yiddish "schmir."
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the Germ-ans
Ve vill spread and multiply! No aisle can stop us!
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
mfer nationalised the comments section just like they did the swedish nuclear power plants
Germans nationalized Swedish power plants? TIL
yeah, Uniper is a major stakeholder in the Oskarshamn and Forsmark power plants, and it was absorbed into the German state in 2022.
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Ancient meme. Handle with caution
Plus don't pronounce 'caution' so ruff.
Italian not missing a beat in making things sound like pasta.
Wait that's what bowtie pasta is named after isn't it
In Italian, butterfly, bowtie and the kind of pasta are all called "farfalla". Which has come first, though?
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Die eier von Satan literally means Satan's eggs. It's a recipe for round cookies with hash. And no eggs.
UND KEINE EIER!
That's funny, in Brazilian Portuguese 'mariposa' means 'moth', and the word for 'butterfly' is 'borboleta'. TDIL.
‘borboleta’
Lol sounds like medieval siege engine name
Papillon in French
Sommerfugl (bird of summer) in Danish :)
C'est magnifique.
And Pillangó in Hungarian. I love both words.
Someone once told me to that words for things that are not traded across linguistic borders exhibit more linguistic diversity (as in, neighbouring countries use completely different words that share no common etymological roots etc.). Butterfly is one key example.
ผีเสื้อ in Thai translates to “shirt ghost” 🤷 it sounds very similar to the tone-deaf as “tiger ghost” which is certainly a cooler name, but nope.
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Afrikaans: skoenlapper, which translates to shoe licker.
Zangendeutsch: Butterfliege
I said Schmierkampagne in real life yesterday.
I’m a native English speaker and Zangendeutsch is ruining me.
What is zangendeutsch? Google isn't giving me much in the way of English answers
It's basically an insider from a German meme community here on lemmy. The community is called ich_iel (a translation of me_irl) and people use bad literal translations from English as a joke and call it Zangendeutsch. Butterfliege is a literal translation of butterfly but not the real translation.
I wish I spoke German. That's exactly my type of humor. Lol
It’s never too late to learn. Just don’t use the ich_iel community as study material or you’ll end up speaking a very strange kind of German.
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Tja
A schmetterling is the approximate amount of shit one spackles into the bowl of the toilet after a particularly fibrous day. It's not so much that it clogs the plumbing or anything, but it certainly leaves a schmetterling of evidence behind for the next man to attempt to knock loose with his stream.
A very beautiful word.
Papalotl in Nahuatl.
Mariposa gang
蝶々 ちょうちょう chouchou in japanese (although technically the first chou means the same thing; I'm not sure if there is a real difference)
We used to call then flutterbys definitely trolling
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