If it wasn’t for a bunch of snobbish Vikings who regarded badly spoken French as classier than those uncouth Germanic languages, we’d be making compound nouns with the best of them, and would have to find something else about the Germans to laugh at.
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Gelik@feddit.dk · 38 pts · 1y
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 1y
English: Natural science branch
German: Naturwissenschaft
Dutch: Natuurwetenschap
Danish: Naturvidenskab
Norwegian: Naturvitenskap
Swedish: Naturvetenskap
Afrikaans: Natuurwetenskappe
Gelik@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 1y
Okay fair, ty for sharing
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
Ah yes grouping german with romance languages and english(clearly the word derived from romance languages)
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 1y
Dutch natuurwetenschap, Swedish naturvetenskap,...
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y
Why not skip "Natur" while we're at it.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
To keep it in line with the meme. You can remove the Natur from all of them, even the German one.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, that's what I meant. The meme is pointless if you translate "science" correctly.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Naturwissenschaften is Physics
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
It's also chemistry, biology, medicine,...
Gelik@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 1y
I would say it's natural science. Turns out the meme mixes the term up with science...
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 21 pts · 1y
If it wasn’t for a bunch of snobbish Vikings who regarded badly spoken French as classier than those uncouth Germanic languages, we’d be making compound nouns with the best of them, and would have to find something else about the Germans to laugh at.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
Ist doch super, fünf einfache Vokabeln in einem Wort. Das ist die deutsche Effizienz.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Ist dieses Michmich überhaupt vom Michmichangemessenheitsprüfungsausschuss genehmigt?
FundMECFS@quokk.au · 1 pts · 1y