wanna guess what the German word for "gym" is?
a hint: it's borrowed from English
das Gym would be too easy
no, it's das Fitnessssssssssssssssssssssstudio
[tʃæɑ̯rˠɣæːst]
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linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.
since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!
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in reply to @ceargaest's post:
omg apparently there's a wiktionary category for these lol https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_with_3_consecutive_instances_of_the_same_letter
i have now realized i had been reading brennnessel (stinging nettle) wrong my entire life as brenn + esel (burn + donkey), as opposed to brenn + nessel (burn + nettle)