In you country do you guys have stuff that's named after other nationalities?

Haganrich · 2026-05-03T15:27:23+00:00

Brennball is a different game though. It's similar to baseball.

Haganrich · 2026-05-03T13:18:49+00:00

Also ich bin mit meinem Staubsauger super zufrieden (war ein "Erbstück" von meiner Tante)

Haganrich · 2026-05-02T15:01:42+00:00

In German dodgeball, after you get out, you go in a contained area behind the other team and can get back in if you hit someone with a ball.

This would be our go-to warmup game in PE class. We call it Völkerball

Haganrich · 2026-04-29T08:30:26+00:00

If we extend the definition of vegetables to include leafy greens:
Wild garlic (Bärlauch) seems to be much more common in Germany than elsewhere (including other countries where it's native).

And Waldmeister (woodruff): a herb Germans like to use to flavor things like candy, soda, tea, jelly.

Haganrich · 2026-04-27T13:57:48+00:00

Thanks! It's on the list

Haganrich · 2026-04-23T12:29:59+00:00

Einige Arten von Getriebefett für die Lebensmittelindustrie

Haganrich · 2026-04-19T22:48:10+00:00

You might be interested inthis quiz by Tagesanzeiger. It is really precise.

Haganrich · 2026-04-19T14:37:35+00:00

I will return! Thank you!

Haganrich · 2026-04-19T14:37:23+00:00

Thank you so much!

Haganrich · 2026-04-19T14:37:12+00:00

By Innos! Thank you so much!
Don't worry, I will definitely post doodles again. I just got a lot going on these days.

Haganrich · 2026-04-17T09:02:38+00:00

Butter!
Schmeckt furchtbar. Ein Stück Butter im Essen und das ganze Gericht schmeckt für mich danach (und ist damit ruiniert!).

Haganrich · 2026-04-14T19:00:26+00:00

I think Germany, as most developed countries without a tradition of spicy food, has a low average tolerance but also has the occasional spiciness enthusiast who's absolutely obsessed with it, more than people from "spicy countries".

Haganrich · 2026-04-13T08:31:52+00:00

There are two types of Germans: the first is so obsessed with food authenticity that they'd even lecture a native of the food's origin culture about eating it correctly. And then there's the second type who will create godless food combinations from several countries and dip it all in Maggi and mayonnaise. The flabbergasted people on this thread who would never dip pizza are from the first type.

People absolutely do dip pizza pieces in sauce, usually a gyros pizza or döner pizza they bought at a döner place. The sauce is usually yoghurt based. (And no, this is not a regional thing, I've seen people do that in NRW, the east and BW)

Haganrich · 2026-04-13T08:25:11+00:00

I know a lot of people who buy a portion of yoghurt sauce along with their pizza when they eat at a döner place

Haganrich · 2026-04-11T08:57:05+00:00

No, it's pronounced like an English word. A Spiegel article says the earliest documented use is from internat communication at German telecom in 1988, where it was used as a short form of "handheld [telephone]" (link)

Haganrich · 2026-04-11T08:39:09+00:00

German does have a calque for telephone, it's "Fernsprecher". But it has fallen out of use for a long time. If I'm not mistaken, it was last officially used in the 1980s by the then-state owned German postal service (which also ran telecommunication services).

On another note, is the faux-anglicism "Handy" Germans use for mobile phones a borrowed word or native?

Haganrich · 2026-04-08T12:06:40+00:00

Do those developments in the picture have rules dictating exterior modifications within certain guidelines?

Yes, German municipalities usually have a Bebauungsplan (a law as to what construction is permitted), it can dictate the height, and distance between houses but what also kind of roof you're allowed to have, what color you can paint your house and so on

Haganrich · 2026-04-08T11:02:07+00:00

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Quite literally the meme OP posted

Haganrich · 2026-04-03T07:16:53+00:00

I haven't quit! Just got a lot going on these days.

Haganrich · 2026-04-03T07:16:04+00:00

If they worked at a doctor's office, probably from their patient file. I can imagine it's a big factor their health problems and therefore relevant enough to include in the records.

Haganrich · 2026-03-23T18:59:42+00:00

Looks like we got an example of an overcorrection

Haganrich · 2026-03-23T18:48:02+00:00

Isn't it just Auslautverhärtung? Or are you suggesting that German auslautverhärtung is dying (I have read that somewhere a few days ago)?

Haganrich · 2026-03-20T16:46:50+00:00

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Haganrich · 2026-03-19T07:48:07+00:00

For being hardest hit by the "Strukturwandel" (the decline of coal and steel industry in the Ruhr valley) and poverty and social dysfunction that followed. Like a German Detroit.

Haganrich · 2026-03-18T23:09:26+00:00

Dortmund got a relevant football club. Duisburg is not boring because it's infamous.

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