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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

German always looks great.

My favourite?

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

What the fuck did you just call me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

For any non-Germans:

cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dutch does that but there are limits. Four, five, six words smashed together?! Doe normaal! Germans... always going a bit too far.... 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah laws or very specialized tools/Maschines can get crazy, but I think our lawmakers are also trolling sometimes with the long titles.