I like your version more
I like your version more
It's both! One can indeed be a "Backpfeifengesicht" and an "Arschgeige".
I don't understand this insult but I love it all the same. Thanks for this new weapon in my comeback arsenal.
German is so underappreciated when it comes to insults. But there are some really great ones
They don't.. it's just the way that german words are constructed. In English we'd call it a phrase, but in german they don't need the spaces, so everyone just calls it a 'word'. When these kinds of things used to be posted on TIL all the time before we banned them, at least half of them would get a flood of germans all chiming in to say 'While it is grammatically correct, no one ever uses that word'.
I admit I just wanted an excuse to point out how uniquely punchable Steve Huffman's face is.
While this is true, Backpfeifengesicht is actually a commonly used term, if a bit on the archaic/regional side.
Yes once in awhile real ones were posted to TIL as well, but since the vast majority of them were nonsense, that's why they were banned. No one on the mod team was a native german speaker and it just wasn't worth the trouble of figuring out which, if any, were legitimate words. It ended up leading to the rule against translations/definitions/word origins.
Compound words are for the most parts just regular words. This is actually an example of a well known word which has a (slightly) different meaning than the individual words.
Same as many English compound words, e.g. grandparents, airport...
It is not just a quirk in the German language as you can see, although it probably originates from there. While it is possible to construct words, most used compound words are well agreed on (same as in English) and not as made up, as you make it seem.
Noun phrases are things like "of the red tree": Whole phrases that can be referred to by "this", "it", etc. Backpfeifengesicht ist very much a compound noun, "punchable face" is not, "schlagbares Gesicht" neither, both are noun phrases. "cuffearface" is a compound noun, no matter how many spaces and hyphens you add to it.
It actually means “slap-to-the-cheek face”
good example.
Word was invented for Max Verstappen
Those pesky Germans have a word for everything don’t they. We need to start waking up over here in the English language. They even have a word for when there’s no wind and no solar for when renewables are basically reliant on battery.. or fossil fuels.
Fuck u/spez
Fuck u/spez-ceo
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
@ivanafterall „Arschgeige“ would also be very suitable in this case.
It literally means Ass-Violin
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