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@comicstrips Words for an Epic Quest

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, Thursday, May 9, 2024: http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2024/05/words-for-epic-quest.html

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[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Waldbrand - forest fire, scheitern - to fail, schlachtefest - massacre

[–] JeyNessuno@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Aren't these just German words?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Schadenfreude, zeitgeist, kindergarten and many other words are borrowed from the German language.