In #German, all nouns start with a capital letter, while in #English, only proper nouns start with a capital letter.

Fun fact: English used to be written similarly in the past (with nouns capitalized). The US Constitution used to capitalize most of the nouns. English dropped that practice later.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_in_English#History_of_English_capitalization

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German has some of the best words

New fav = Totenkopfschwebfliege

the meaning is a kind of fly, but the word!
And there are so many more. In all kinds of languages. Amazing, fascinating, weird (in a good way), wonderful words.😍

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What's the German for “to boymode”? „boymoden“? Is „boy-“ a separable prefix? 🤔

„Ich habe boygemodet“? „Sie modet gerade boy“? 🤣 🤣 🤣

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- A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

- A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

- Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don't serve your type.”

- A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

— Jill Thomas Doyle

More word fun here: https://www.tumblr.com/ebookporn/628326548234240000/an-oxford-comma-walks-into-a-bar-where-it

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