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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums“Todskunkmittelstrasse” is German for "dead skunk in the middle of the road."
It's neat the way German has all these long compound words, to take care of nearly any situation.
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“Todskunkmittelstrasse” is German for "dead skunk in the middle of the road." (Original Post)
raccoon
Aug 2012
OP
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. Fuckthemwecandothattoo
See?
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)6. LOL
MissHoneychurch
(33,600 posts)2. Sorry to disappoint you
but that is no real word.
First: skunk in German is "Stinktier" (stinking animal).
Second: Mittelstraße means middle street, not middle of the road. That would be "mitten auf der Straße".
Now Lastkraftwagenanhängerkupplung is a real word. Not that anyone says it. But still, this word exists. It means Truck trailer hitch btw.
/smartass modus off.
raccoon
(31,119 posts)4. "Lastkraftwagenanhängerkupplung"--see what I mean? Lovely cat! nt
rug
(82,333 posts)3. Stinkin to high, high Himmel
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)5. If the situation "Man fucking dead rodent in road while eating tacos and watching TV" comes up,...
... the Germans will turn it into a single word. I took two years of German. Every long word is a word salad. Russian was a lot simpler.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)7. Fahrvergnugen!
Gesundheit.