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Palestinians are now "Stateless" according to German law (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Probably because the word looks like it was made by bashing your head on the keyboard

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As I was saying, if "it has long words with sound/letter combinations that monolingual Anglophones find hard to read/pronounce" is the only criterion for "this language is too funny-sounding to be real", then I guess Nuxalk must be absolutely hilarious.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Like it or not, German is one of those languages where the spelling of a word actually gives you a very good idea of how it is pronounced.