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As a German it's amusing to me that a translation was given for Kummerspeck, but not for Wanderlust.
by busfahrer 6y ago
As a German it's amusing to me that a translation was given for Kummerspeck, but not for Wanderlust.
- wheels 6y agoWanderlust is commonly used as a loanword in English. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wanderlust https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wanderlust
- MockObject 6y agoAs an American it's amusing to me that Wanderlust means the same in German, since both words are English as well.
- cycomanic 6y agoTo another German it's amusing that the individual words exist in German and English, but don't quite mean the same things in each language, i.e. are not really translations of each other.
- jgwil2 6y agoBoth wander and lust are also English words, albeit with slightly different shades of meaning, so it should be comprehensible to a non-German speaker who has never encountered it before, whereas Kummerspeck would not be.
- martyvis 6y agoCoincidentally I saw a tweet yesterday which said that albeit looks like a German word but isn't