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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

German always looks great.

My favourite?

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

What the fuck did you just call me

[–] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 4 months ago

For any non-Germans:

cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw

[–] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 8 points 4 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.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 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.... 😉

[–] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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.