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What are your favorite examples of German words making it into English? (lemmy.world)

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[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Some of these are more personal to me (a Brit).

Scheissesturm. It's not originally from Germany. It's a Germanified Anglo word.

Apparently Germans imported "shitstorm" from English. When I read about it in the newspaper I decided to re-import it into English by using the German translation.

Personally I enjoy using curse words from other languages but I especially love German curse words so I also use "scheisse", "verdammt" and "Gottverdammt".

Because Dutch sounds so funny I took one of their curses and use it for a funny pisstake insult - "kanker hoer" followed by a laugh.