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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:08:15 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   For some reason German has tons of fun synonyms for “Pedant” (someone who is pedantic)

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:45:47 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke nice, Zwangsneurotiker is definitely also used in German

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:45:48 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     @thomasfuchs Similar in Swedish.

     But the most important fact about Swedish is that we use the word "Besserwisser" because Swedish didn't have a good enough word for it. 🙂

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     Amy Hoy (amyhoy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:50:28 JST Amy Hoy

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     @thomasfuchs yet there is no word for “happy” and just one word for beautiful, pretty, lovely, nice, gorgeous, stunning, appealing, etc

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 04:02:45 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Thomas

     @HorayNarea Some of these synonyms are, let's say, generous

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     Thomas (horaynarea@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 04:02:46 JST Thomas

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     @thomasfuchs maybe I'm a haarspalter here, but some of these don't feel like synonyms 🤔

     I mean "langweiler", really?

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