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As an American who has lived in Switzerland for 16 years, I still find some German words to be absolutely hilarious in English.
This street, for instance, will never cease to be funny. You can look it up on the map–it’s not AI-generated. It is near the primary school my eldest a
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tended. Language is a funny thing. Sometimes things said in one language are offensive if the same sound pattern is repeated in another. We learn how to speak and hear as children, and if we grow up speaking one language, we may never learn how to properly pronounce words