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itty bitty living space of my utterly clutterly obsessions

[harlequinides]

quick piece cos i'm seeing tgwdlm tonight!

[catcatalpa]

1920 hamlet is so cute🥹……

[jennydolfen]

Wax and Wayne, everybody.

[catasters]

[licebeam]

the normal case of dr jekyll and mr hyde where utterson is convinced that jekyll is hyde but actually hyde is just blackmailing jekyll.

[my-dailydreams]

[teds-awesome-doodles]

NEW WILL BRANNER HIDGENS POST JUST DROPPED ON INSTA

LOOK AT THEM LOOK SJEIWJSBFJEOAKSGNSJ

[icarusdiesatdawn]

Coming to YouTube July 4, 2026

[fencecollapsed]

HD full-body angle of Bill Woodward slapping the shit out of Ted Spankoffski you are so important and special and the only image ever

[theocseason4]

Everything is embarrassing if you live your life through the eyes of others btw

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?

[latveriansnailmail]

Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?

[thatswhywelovegermany]

um = around

die Welt = world

die Umwelt = environment

ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter

-ung = -ing

die Vermüllung = littering

ver- = see before

zweifeln = to doubt

-ung = see before

die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation

die Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung = …

[serhumfreysbrokencollarbone]

This is a german compound on the spot master class and I am LIVING

[thatswhywelovegermany]

#my german is still too basic for this but I desperately want a compound word for how much these compound words piss me off

das Monster = monster

das Wort = word

der Groll = grudge, anger, malice, rancor

der Monsterwortgroll = …

[linguistikforum]

Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Bildung = formation

die Imitation = imitation

un- = un-, in-

fähig = able

-keit = -ility

die Unfähigkeit = inability

der Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll = anger about the inability to imitate the formation of monster words

[wildflower182]

Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Linguistik = linguistics

die Fehde = feud

der Handschuh = glove

der Fehdehandschuh = gauntlet

der Wurf = throw

der Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf = throwing down the linguistic gauntlet

[shiplocks-of-love]

*slowly backs in fear*

[meetinginsamarra]

@shiplocks-of-love, @thatswhywelovegermany

Monsterwortbildungsunfähigkeitsangstverzweiflungsrückzugsecke

Monster=monster // wort=word // bildung(s)=formation

unfähigkeit (s)=incabability  // angst=anxiety

verzweiflung(s)=desperation  // rückzug(s)=retreat // ecke=corner

=the corner in which you retreat when you´re desperate because of your fear when being unable to form monster words

[shiplocks-of-love]

*eye twitch*

But what I want to see now is two germans arguing over the construction of one of these monster words.

[melmey]

@shiplocks-of-love I don’t think that will happen. The words make perfect sense. I think if German is your mother tongue you get a feeling for combining words, like a 

Monsterwortbildungsgespür

Monster = monster 

Wort = word 

Bildung(s) = formation

Gespür = intuition

;-)

[a-german-learning-clown]

🤡

[dewdropbonnet]

Sprachirrgartenbelustigungsbeitrag

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Sprache = language

• irren = to become lost (also: to err, to be mistaken; to wander, to stray)

• der Garten = garden

der Irrgarten = maze, knot garden

• be- = prefix with a variety of functions: ¹as part of a compound word, it denotes a processing or change of state; ²as part of a compound word, it denotes a touch; ³as part of a compound word, it denotes a more intensive preoccupation with or thematization of something; ⁴it forms from a noun an adjective with a pseudo-participle form because the corresponding verb does not exist; ⁵as a prefix, it forms a transitive verb from a previously intransitive verb; ⁶as a prefix of a verb, it shifts the focus and thus changes the sentence structure

• lustig = funny

• -ung = suffix turning an adjective/adverb into a noun

die Belustigung = amusement, entertainment, merriment

der Beitrag = contribution, article in a newspaper or magazine, posting on social media, input to a discussion

[linguistness]

Bloody love this language <3<3<3

[randomgerman]

The thing is, since in German you have to decline/conjugate many words in relation to the noun they are refering to those monster words actually serve a purpose of making the language simpler. A common example is a (as in any) red wine (ein roter Wein) as compaired to the compound a red wine (ein Rotwein). If rot is an adjective it has to be conjugated: der rote Wein - des roten Weins - die roten Weine - and many more. But it if rot is part of the noun you only have to decline Wein: der Rotwein - des Rotweins - die Rotweine. So, die Verzweiflung über die Vermüllung der Umwelt is way longer than Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung and you would have to know three grammatical genders and the words’ respective declinations. Whereas for Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung you only need to know that Verzweiflung is grammatically feminine (die) and its deklinations.

[mareebrittenford]

Ok, now I want to see Germans playing Scrabble

[thatswhywelovegermany]

[the-lax-disciple]

Doomscrollaufhellungsrepost

Doom scroll // self explanatory

auf- // lit.: „up“ indicates rising, or something becoming bigger, better, healthier

hell // bright

aufhellen // to brighten something up

-ung // makes a verb a noun

-s- // the glue that keeps german compound words together

repost // self explanatory

Doomscrollaufhellungsrepost // a repost to brighten up your doom scroll

You‘re Welcome!

[allthingslinguistic]

The thing that I always want to point out to English speakers marvelling at German compounds is that we do this too! It’s a thing that Germanic languages are especially prone to!

It’s just conventional in English to keep writing spaces in between larger compounds, whereas in German it’s conventional to remove them. But they sound the same! Grammatically, they’re identical!

You could call it the…

English-German compound word space omission overadmiration fallacy

[flowerytale]

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

[edw-lugh]

Daily affirmations:

No one will find the picture in your attic.

It's not your fault the person made of cadavers you sew together and you revived killed your family.

It's perfectly normal to enter your house climbing like a lizard.

The fact that you killed a man doesn't make you guilty, it was just your silly alter ego.

That raven who won't stop saying "nevermore" is an asshole, don't listen to it.

Your fiancé is definitely NOT hiding his mad spouse in his attic.

The big ass dog that killed members of your family isn't real, dw.

You deserve revenge for having been abused as a child, go back to moors and show them!

Go and kidnap that singer!

[bethanydelleman]

Okay... this is a challenge:

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, ummmmm The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and... The Phantom of the Opera? But I'm really not sure on the last one.

[lizzybennets]

THE MANY FACES OF ELIZABETH BENNET

Greer Garson | Pride and Prejudice (1940) Elizabeth Garvie | Pride and Prejudice (1980) Jennifer Ehle | Pride and Prejudice (1995) Aishwarya Rai | Bride and Prejudice (2004) Keira Knightley | Pride and Prejudice (2005) Ashley Clements | The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012-2013) Anna Maxwell Martin | Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) Lily James | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) Mary Mattison | Pride and Prejudice: A New Musical (2020) Poppy Gilbert | The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

[jameszmaguire]

A Very Potter Musical (2009) || Good Omens (2019)

(season 2 edition)

[artfoli]

Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 1883, by Ivan Kramskoi (1837-1887)

When this portrait was exhibited it caused a stir among critics. Many shunned the painting, as they believed it must have depicted a very immoral woman (possibly a prostitute) due to her intense gaze.

[thelastlightningbug]

ah yes those whores and their *checks notepad* eyeballs 

[my-dailydreams]

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

The cat cafe