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Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (8 children)

There's probably a German word for the concept that there is a German word for everything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Indeed - for OP's purposes, I came up with this (but I don't speak German, so it may make no sense at all): Erfindungselbstfehlzündung

Google seems to like it well enough!

Or better, Erfindungdererfinderselbstfehlzündung:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The first one works, the second doesn't. You cannot simply put any words together.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Maybe YOU can't.

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